71.   If the economy is expanding too quickly, straining resources, the pace of inflation can accelerate and erode the value of stocks and fixed-income investments.

72.   Inflation is declining, even as the economy expanded in the first quarter at its fastest pace in a decade.

73.   Inflation is low, interest rates are low and the economy is expanding.

74.   International Business Machines Corp. and Aluminum Co. of America -- so-called cyclical stocks that do well when the economy expands -- led the advance.

75.   Investors and traders took the decline as a sign that the economy will expand too slowly to spur inflation.

76.   Investors are concerned that the economy is expanding at a quicker pace, raising the risk of inflation.

77.   Investors expect the metals group to experience strong growth as the economy expands against a backdrop of low interest rates and inflation.

78.   Investors remain cautiously optimistic that the economy is not expanding at a pace fast enough to heat inflation.

79.   Interest rates surged as U.S. economic reports either suggested the economy is expanding fast enough to accelerate inflation, or did little to dispel that perception.

80.   Investors got a taste of that possibility last Friday when the government reported that the economy expanded more briskly in the fourth quarter than previously thought.