1.   Making insurers pay for experimental therapies seems like asking the ailing health care sector to subsidize biotech.

2.   Russian passenger transportation has been subsidized by freight tariffs and this has increased the burden on the ailing industrial sector.

3.   South Korean stocks rose, led by banks and brokerages, on optimism the government will soon come up with measures to boost the ailing financial sector.

4.   The presence of foreign banks in Venezuela is expected to improve the ailing financial sector, said traders.

5.   The president stressed the importance of Congress giving him wide latitude to negotiate free trade pacts, which he said bolster the ailing agricultural sector of the U.S. economy.

6.   Primakov attended a meeting of agricultural officials Wednesday, and promised support to the ailing sector so it can boost production.

7.   Bankers in Shanghai have been saying China will soon unveil plans aimed at boosting its ailing banking sector.

8.   Egyptian officials say Washington wants Egypt to quickly privatize its ailing state sector and introduce more liberal trade, financial and investment laws.

9.   He said the important factor in reviving the ailing banking sector was to find ways to solve its huge bad debt problem.

10.   His reform priorities include privatizing state-run enterprises and restoring the ailing banking sector.