1.   The economy is performing well.

2.   Only the United Kingdom economy performed as badly during the seventies and it has always been near the bottom of the league.

3.   As long as the team is solid, the economy can perform well.

4.   Barnard said fallout from the sluggish holiday season depends on how the economy performs the rest of the year.

5.   All three statistics are leading indicators of how the economy will perform in the future.

6.   For one thing, the fourth quarter is history, and subsequent economic reports suggest the economy has performed better since then.

7.   It had the coal, timber, gold and other natural resources, and indeed for the next few decades its economy performed quite well by international standards.

8.   It suggested that the economy was performing well, but not overheating.

9.   Kubo said Summers showed concern about how the Japanese economy will perform in the second half of the year and wanted to discuss further economic-stimulus measures.

10.   Long-term budget forecasts are notoriously unreliable, and the fiscal outlook could change substantially based on how the economy performs.