With its unsteady economy, the last thing Russia needs is the burden of supporting Belarus's failing industrial base.

The systems fostering free media are still extant after several governments, after an unsteady economy and after changes in civic opinion or social conventions.

Russia's unsteady economy survived a critical test today as the Government sold nearly $1 billion in Treasury bills without paying the colossal interest rates that the bonds traded at just a week ago.

In an unsteady economy, the potential damage from a rate increase is considerable.

THE unsteady economy this year may have caused a housing slowdown, but it certainly hasn't produced a housing slim-down.

Entrepreneurs need certainty in this unsteady economy.

An unsteady economy translated into fewer donors than in the previous year, though donors on average gave more generously, according to Mr. Rosenthal.

In part, this change is due to an increasingly unpopular war and an unsteady economy.

In this final weekend, Democrats sounded themes they had been talking about since last summer: an unsteady economy, prescription drug coverage for the elderly and the future of Social Security.

The unsteady American economy also seems to fuel the debate, in a nation where layoffs are now so commonplace.