1.   And that is at a time of sour news, as the Asian economic crisis beats down its semiconductor exports from China.

2.   So it was a double whammy of sour news in Buffalo last week.

3.   What looks like a drumbeat of sour news about cutbacks and dot-com misery may not be as bad as it seems.

4.   At the center of the sour economic news is the pessimistic Japanese consumer.

5.   In the meantime, the sour economic news trickles in day by day.