71.   After a blockbuster first quarter, job creation slowed sharply in May and became more sluggish each month.

72.   AIDS remains a major problem on the continent although the rates of infection are slowing in Uganda.

73.   Already, expansion of bank loans to the region slowed in the third quarter, and financial market activity could decline further, it said.

74.   Boosting the outlook for stable interest rates was a report that U.S. manufacturing activity slowed in September.

75.   Boosting the outlook for stable interest rates, a trade group reported that U.S. manufacturing activity slowed in September.

76.   Both the NAPM and Philadelphia Fed indexes suggested that manufacturing slowed in June to its lowest level in more than four years.

77.   Buddleia, or butterfly bush, bursts into bloom in spring, slows somewhat in summer and produces more blooms in fall.

78.   Brazilian stocks were helped by lower interest rates in the U.S. after a report on manufacturing showed economic growth slowed in June, said Abreu.

79.   Business and consumer demand in the U.S. appeared to slow in April, two government reports showed Friday.

80.   Business activity in the New York metropolitan area slowed in November and inflation pressures eased, a new report showed today.