11.   Employment agencies in Germany keep an inventory of companies linked to the controversial Church of Scientology, a spokesman for the federal labour office said Monday.

12.   The proposal that firms pay contributions into a training fund for distribution by labour offices mirrors one by the German trade union confederation.

13.   The total, calculated on an unadjuisted basis by the federal labour office, was the highest absolute figure since the end of World War II.

14.   The two men stressed that the federal labour office would receive nothing from the state next year to meet any deficit.

15.   Labour office chairman Bernard Jagoda said so far there had been no turnaround in the German jobs market.

16.   Labour office chairman Bernhard Jagoda has already given notice that more money is needed from the government than it has allocated to help support the unemployed.

17.   Labour office president Bernhard Jagoda attributed the sharp rise in unemployment to the unusually harsh weather conditions in January, as well as the general weak economic environment.

18.   Labour office president Bernhard Jagoda said the seasonal variation had been strong this time because of the high level of weather-related layoffs during the winter.

19.   Labour office vice president Klaus Leven said that the economic recovery had so far not been sufficient to improve the labour market.

20.   Labour office chairman Bernhard Jagoda expressed continuing dissatisfaction with the situation.