11.   Banking stocks climbed more than one percent as a group, amid optimism that the government would act to support ailing lenders.

12.   Before the overthrow, the Mossadegh government had acted to legalize the Iranian Communist Party, and had also nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.

13.   Also troubling to some is the way that the Serbian government acted Thursday in defiance of the Milosevic-appointed Constitutional Court, fearing further delays in the transfer.

14.   Brownfield developers say the strict standards imposed by these older laws are less of a problem than the uncertainty over how government will act.

15.   Business needs to consider the possibility, he said, that government can actually act to improve things.

16.   Bucchini is asking for the government to act generously.

17.   But Cardona said the government would not act until a three-judge panel reviewed the temporary stay, which could happen as early as Friday.

18.   But even the commission acknowledged, one year after its report, that the government had not acted on those proposals.

19.   But foreign experts familiar with the company say it believes the government could have acted earlier and more forcefully against the boycott campaign.

20.   But in the end, both governments acted sensibly to conclude the affair before it seriously damaged their overall relationship.