51.   Business leaders, meanwhile, particularly from the U.S. coal and oil industry, said the energy restraints could only cause economic distress.

52.   But the Palestinians were showing signs of economic distress.

53.   But poor countries in acute economic distress -- the normal end-of-regime situation in Third World dictatorships --contain millions of desperate people.

54.   Chaturong put the contraction of the overall market down largely to the economic distress, though conceding that tougher competition was an important factor.

55.   Clinton boasted that the nation has been lifted from economic distress, social decline and political gridlock.

56.   Crime has risen dramatically in the Yugoslav capital, spurred by sanctions-busting and the economic distress of many people.

57.   He said the exhibition was welcomed in times of economic distress and gave him temporary relief from mundane cares and concerns.

58.   He said the government must speed up passage of the bankruptcy law to facilitate the private sector during this period of economic distress.

59.   Levy said he and Ikeda discussed the economic distress of the Palestinians in the wake of a six-month Israeli closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

60.   Malaysia, seeking to protect its shores from immigrants fleeing economic distress throughout Southeast Asia, is also deporting illegal aliens at an unprecedented rate.