41.   The economic stimulus helped to end a severe recession.

42.   The report underscores the impressive rebound that Southern California has achieved from the severe recession in the early part of this decade.

43.   The risk is that there is a severe recession and the business travelers stay home.

44.   The severe recession that struck South America last year has damaged, though not destroyed, the enthusiasm for both economic reform and democratic government.

45.   Those policies, many in Asia argued, led to high unemployment and a more severe recession from which a number of countries are still struggling to recover.

46.   Wilson attributed the low ratings mainly to the severe recession and steep cutbacks in the defense and aerospace industries, which threw thousands of Californians out of work.

47.   At one time when the Japanese economy was having a severe recession, many companies were retrenching people.

48.   But the president has been shackled by a severe recession.

49.   During its four-year term, the coalition steered Finland out of a severe recession and boosted the economy into one of the fastest growing in Europe.

50.   Economists say Chavez may have difficulty achieving his economic goals because of a severe recession caused by slumping oil prices.