1.   As a condition for IMF assistance Brazil has to cut its deficit almost in half this year.

2.   As evidence, Eakle points to forecasts from both Compaq Computer Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. of a stronger second half this year.

3.   British Columbia has seen its salmon harvest cut in half this year out of conservation concerns.

4.   He said money supply growth has picked up this year, which will lead to a recovery in the second half this year.

5.   It took me about two, two and a half years for it to completely heal.

6.   It said it expected the departure rate to be cut almost in half this year.

7.   Semiconductor shares fell a day after Texas Instruments Inc. said prices for some computer chips are down by almost half this year.

8.   Still, all the free days amount to half the year off.

9.   Stocks fell amid investor concern about higher interest rates and underlying expectations of inflation accelerating in the second half this year.

10.   Terrestrial rocks show no evidence of hotter eruptions over the past half billion years.