After a sharp slide this week, crude oil prices edged up yesterday.

Premature tightening of monetary policy could result in a sharp slide back into budget deficit.

The initial public offering market, on fire the last 15 months, will probably cool off a great deal because of the market's sharp slide.

The appeal cited "a sharp slide in donations," beginning last year.

Many officials worry that if the dollar begins to fall, it could enter a sharp slide, unsettling financial markets.

For example, consumer confidence took a sharp slide after the stock market crash of 1987.

Indeed, many economists said the officials' comments had encouraged the dollar's present sharp slide.

Bond prices ended mixed yesterday after a sharp early slide.

The sharp slide in manufacturing seems to be leveling off.

The result, since Tito's death, has been in a sharp downhill slide.