11.   It was because of crony capitalism, bad banking and overleveraged real estate investments, many experts said.

12.   Its stubborn survival shows how deeply crony capitalism has taken root here.

13.   Like Suharto, Mahathir brought his country steady growth but also crony capitalism, a repressive Internal Security Act and a subservient judiciary and media.

14.   Many Russians hold him largely responsible for the catastrophic decline of the economy and the crony capitalism that has emerged in place of the promised free markets.

15.   More fundamentally, the country must turn away from the crony capitalism that led to wasteful investments in everything from autos to airplanes.

16.   Others, however, said the government still had a lot to do if it was serious about fighting crony capitalism.

17.   Others are political banks, born of the embrace between Russian business and government that has given new meaning to crony capitalism.

18.   Salinas left a legacy of political corruption, crony capitalism and economic crisis from which Mexico is still trying to recover.

19.   Some attribute it to crony capitalism and fundamental weaknesses in overseas countries.

20.   South Korea, like many other Asian nations, has yet to clean up its banking system or dismantle its traditional system of crony capitalism.