71.   Fed officials feared that the growing economy and tight labor market would push wages and prices higher, threatening the expansion in the long run.

72.   Financial services funds did well because of consolidation in the industry, a growing economy, low inflation and tame interest rates, said Kinnel.

73.   Fear has finally found a worthy opponent in a growing economy.

74.   For a second day, software and computer-related stocks rose amid optism that a growing economy will spur profits.

75.   For a second day, a rise in long-term interest rates helped to push down cyclical stocks, which depend on a growing economy to generate profits.

76.   For the first time since the collapse of communism, Russia has a balanced budget, a thumping trade surplus, bulging reserves and a growing economy.

77.   Gold fell after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, in his second day of congressional testimony, fueled expectations for a growing economy with low inflation.

78.   Granted, the series has concentrated on the people who lost jobs, not the many more who have gained jobs in a growing economy.

79.   Growing economy.

80.   He and the other Republican governors, meanwhile, will argue their Republican policies have produced growing economies.