When the global economy sputtered last year, drug stocks were favorites because of their steady earnings streams.

But the times have changed; the economy is sputtering.

Fourteen months after he stepped down, the economy here is sputtering, and the government is paralyzed.

The economy, which boomed in the 1990's during the dot-com bubble, has sputtered for years.

Now, the economy is sputtering, possibly hurting ticket sales.

Health spending surged in recent years while the economy sputtered.

Beginning in 2001 and continuing through last year, voters across the nation began giving governors fits as local economies sputtered.

After a bad year for jobs, 1962 showed improvement, all of which was wiped out in 1963 as the economy sputtered again.

The Soviet Union's economy, from the largest industrial plant to the neighborhood grocery store, is sputtering.

The local economy is sputtering, and the utility's health depends in large part on that of the city.