When the semiconductor industry, a cyclical business, entered the inevitable downturn, National fared worse than most companies.

The bankers are also trying to position themselves for the inevitable downturn.

In the inevitable downturns - and some say another lies ahead - the two lose money.

"They're really working at doing what they can to protect themselves from the inevitable downturn," she said.

Whitman is at her best in recognizing that the American model will survive as a beacon only if it weathers the inevitable next economic downturn.

The Big Three are reluctant to hire workers, fearing the pension and health care costs they would have to cover during the inevitable downturn.

If we use that time well, the inevitable downturn will not, once again, lead us to the problems that we have previously encountered.

After seeing the economy move ahead for nearly eight years, the group sees the so-called inevitable downturn two years from now, in 1992.

Few put enough money aside for the inevitable downturn in the economic cycle.

When the inevitable downturn comes, so, too, might the desperation and fury of the primaries of 1992.