61.   Just around the time Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas M. Finneran was putting the brakes on any hopes of a stadium compromise in Boston.

62.   Last winter, the onset of a global recession put brakes on the boom.

63.   Lower sales and profits could mean that companies will also put the brakes on hiring, pushing up unemployment to new records.

64.   Massachusetts employers are putting the brakes on hiring after having added jobs for the past several months.

65.   Massachusetts employers put the brakes on hiring in September, as defense contractors and computer makers cut back, and confidence eroded among employers.

66.   Marriage puts the brakes on that market.

67.   More likely is a proposal aimed merely at putting brakes on footloose firms.

68.   Niles cut his rating on the stock last month because of concerns that when the lead times were reduced, customers would put the brakes on their orders.

69.   Now a new kind of computerized safeguard promises to put the brakes on forgery once and for all.

70.   Of the majority, Kennedy is widely seen as the justice most likely to put the brakes on a drive toward state sovereignty.