Still, economists say, even with a big national downturn, the state is in position to land softly.

Despite a national downturn in the housing market, Longview has been growing, and home prices continue to rise.

The energy crisis, the national economic downturn, will both have an effect.

New York is the fifth state whose unemployment insurance fund has gone into the red since the start of the national downturn in 1990.

He noted that the economic slump in the metropolitan region dated to 1987, three years before the national downturn.

The company said the decision reflected the national downturn in commercial real estate.

But the city has grave fiscal problems, in part because of the national economic downturn.

Before Sept. 11 the city was already feeling the bite of a significant national downturn.

The national economic downturn also negatively impacted the company.

"We gave it our best shot, but current economics and the national downturn in the print industry proved too much for us."