61.   Property companies, threatened by slower sales because of high interest rates, fell.

62.   Retailers report slower sales, due in part to cold weather.

63.   Since slower home sales generally hurt associated industries six months later, the economy may continue to sag even after the impact of the tax increases wears away.

64.   Singapore stocks fell to a seven-week low on concern about slower home sales, while Indonesia and Malaysia also dropped.

65.   Slower home sales could result in lower demand from construction companies, which consume a third of all copper produced.

66.   Slower PC sales in the final quarter of last year led to excess inventory, he said.

67.   Slower home sales could reduce copper demand from construction companies, which account for a third of world copper consumption.

68.   Slower sales and lower prices made it difficult -- and for many still do make it difficult -- to recover the cash applied to one purchase to make another.

69.   Slower sales of newly built houses could indicate that demand from construction companies, which consume a third of all copper produced, will slow as well.

70.   Some auto industry analysts, citing production cuts and rising rebates together with the slower sales, said they saw the beginning of the end of the economic expansion.