1.   The latest figures show that seventy-six companies per day are failing in Britain, the highest rate since the recession began more than two years ago.

2.   THE recession is beginning to affect even children, says a new survey.

3.   And that summer, Kellner was among the first to recognize that a recession had begun.

4.   But government officials later determined that a recession had actually begun three months earlier.

5.   But the economy was in fact weakening, and a recession would begin that summer.

6.   Confidence signals remained high through that July, the month the last recession began.

7.   For steel towns like Alton, Ill., and for workers like Jonathan Walker, the recession began early, and is deep and entrenched.

8.   Given this sort of lag, most analysts follow the unofficial two-down-quarters rule to determine when recessions begin.

9.   In fact, even as he spoke, a recession had already begun.

10.   In July of that year, a recession began.