61.   The flooding wrecked an economy fragile from mismanagement, pushed North Korea to the brink of starvation and forced its secretive Stalinist government to accept outside aid.

62.   The government will announce more changes to its fragile economy on Monday to comply with the second-largest bailout ever cobbled together by the International Monetary Fund.

63.   The NATO-Yugoslav war threatens the fragile economies of southeastern Europe after a decade of failed attempts to switch to market economies, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

64.   The scarcity of water and a fragile economy bind the community together.

65.   The World Bank is not opposed to moves by countries to impose temporary curbs on short-term capital flows to shield their fragile economies, its top official said Saturday.

66.   The United States and its allies have promised Pakistan economic aid to boost its fragile economy which has been shaken further by a conflict in Afghanistan.

67.   They also want beneficiaries to open up their markets to U.S. textiles, a provision that would hurt the fragile Caribbean economies.

68.   The weak jobs report fed fears that consumers might sharply rein in spending and tip the fragile economy into recession.

69.   Their fragile economy has been throttled by Israeli clampdowns.

70.   They contend that wealthy countries exploit poorer ones by pressuring them to remove protective trade barriers and by allowing multinational corporations to dominate their fragile economies.