51.   Sales slumped, losses mounted, and Cowpland eventually walked away, selling his interest in Mitel to British Telecommunications PLC.

52.   Sales slumped, too.

53.   Sales to Southeast Asia slumped after Thailand devalued the baht in July, triggering an economic crisis that has spread throughout the region.

54.   Rising development costs, including an interest rate rise last July, eroded earnings as sales slumped due to oversupply.

55.   Sales slumped in recent years at Lechmere and other electronic chains like Circuit City and Nobody Beats the Wiz.

56.   Sales were slumping.

57.   Signs that computer sales are slumping in Europe and the U.S. weighed on computer shares, such as Hitachi Ltd. and Kyocera Corp.

58.   Some analysts are concerned that the recent boom in production may flood the market with excess supply, causing sales to slump.

59.   Stocks trimmed their losses later in the day when bond prices surged on a Johnson Redbook Service report that department store sales slumped last week.

60.   The Commerce Department reported that retail sales had slumped unexpectedly in December -- and, a bigger surprise, that November was weaker than first reported.