11.   Both companies have taken out numerous advertisements in German newspapers, sometimes in response to each other.

12.   Bundesbank council member Ernst Welteke doused lingering rate-cut hopes in remarks in a German newspaper.

13.   But in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau just before his death last January, Bazargan revealed a sense of betrayal.

14.   Die Welt, a German newspaper, reported Sunday that a spokesman for the Quandt family had rejected the possibility of a sale of BMW.

15.   Editorials in German newspapers over the weekend overwhelmingly favored the decision.

16.   Financial markets had little reaction to the reports, which were in line with expectations and confirmed figures leaked to German newspapers yesterday.

17.   German newspapers, television and radio shows also have reported heavily on the campaign.

18.   German rival Commerzbank AG, Union Bank of Switzerland and German building society Wuestenrot are reportedly putting together a bid of their own, according to German newspapers.

19.   German newspapers gave cautious support to the attacks, noting they were the first hostile action by German forces since the end of World War II.

20.   German newspapers report that intrigue has started inside the CDU to replace him.