41.   If everyone is supposedly tightening their belts, why are so many luxury-goods makers, well, luxuriating?

42.   Intel joins the growing list of technology companies tightening their belts as their business markets, booming only a year ago, grow increasingly uncertain.

43.   Labonte, who after the incident warned that Earnhardt had better tighten his belts, said he has put the shove behind him.

44.   Latin American banks are tightening their belts to cushion future economic crises and compete against a foreign onslaught.

45.   Layoffs were being whispered about in other sectors, too, as press agents and producers alike looked to tighten their belts.

46.   Maids, waitresses, cooks and clerks, most hold the kind of low-skilled jobs that quickly disappear when businesses tighten their belts.

47.   Local governments would have to tighten their belts if New Yorkers are to benefit from any state tax cut, he says.

48.   Motorola watchers are anxious to know what the company is doing to tighten its belt.

49.   Now the church has had to cut costs and tighten its belt, he said.

50.   OK, tighten your belt, and here we go.