1. The economic contraction is of course the prime force driving companies to lay off workers.

2. And typically steeper the economic contraction and decline in employment, the faster the recovery.

3. In Japan, a fourth - quater economic contraction of 3.3 percent rattled the markets.

4. Slow rate of economic contraction, increased of recession in the euro zone may be hope.

5. In Japan, a new analysis predicts a larger economic contraction than previously forecast.

6. Then the loan crisis caused by the financial crisis, global economic contraction.

7. Anxin wood securities said that overall, industry affected by the macro - economic contraction.

8. The Baltic state of Lithuania -- sandwiched between Latvia and the Russian exclave Kalingrad -- faces an economic contraction of 18 percent for 2009.

9. On Oct. 3, the euro zone's manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index for September came in at a two-year low of 48.5; readings under 50 suggest economic contraction.

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10. I suspect that this force accounts for half of the economic contraction at present.

11. Many now think the US will narrowly dodge outright economic contraction.

12. In the usual definition of two consecutive quarters of economic contraction is a recession . The U.