1.   An overall rise in interest rates might dampen the recovery by discouraging companies from borrowing and increasing debt burdens.

2.   A falling yen would help Japan by making foreign products more expensive and by discouraging Japanese companies from moving operations offshore.

3.   Congress needs to devise a law that offers greater protections than were available to Enron workers without discouraging companies from providing the plans at all.

4.   Raising interest rates might dampen the recovery by discouraging companies from borrowing and increasing debt burdens.

5.   The problem with the explosion of frivolous lawsuits is that it is discouraging companies from giving out much-needed information.

6.   The trick will be to find a way to do so without discouraging companies from making voluntary matching contributions in the first place.

7.   Other steps included moves to broaden limits on margin trading of stocks and the suspension of a securities tax seen as discouraging companies from buying back their own stock.