71.   This year, battery sales have slumped.

72.   Ticket sales have slumped at numerous shows since Memorial Day, even some that hoped to get a boost from Tony nominations.

73.   To be sure, signs that computer sales are slumping in Europe and the U.S. weighed on some computer shares and chipmaker stocks here.

74.   U.K. stocks were mixed as banks rose on takeover speculation and retailers fell as sales slumped.

75.   Two housing reports probably will suggest that home sales are no longer slumping.

76.   When sales for the entire industry slumped this year, the classics lines were like dinosaurs, lumbering under their own weight.

77.   With his home village his only market, his sales slumped to about three cases a day.

78.   With sales slumping and losses mounting, WMS Industries, the industry leader, stopped making the machines in November.

79.   Analysts had expected inventories to rise only slightly as businesses hold stockpiles at lower levels after sales slumped earlier in the year.

80.   Beef sales slumped at home, major export markets in France, Italy and other countries suddenly closed.