11.   Political paralysis has prevented Ecuador from closing a huge deficit by raising taxes or by ending expensive subsidies for gasoline and other consumer products.

12.   Sri Lanka has been in state of near political paralysis since summer, when the government first came close to collapse.

13.   That could mean political paralysis in Bonn.

14.   The Clinton administration is operating with so many top-drawer vacancies that mid-level policy decisions are being deferred and a sense of political paralysis infects many Cabinet departments.

15.   The political paralysis continued to take an economic toll Wednesday, as the value of the ruble fell again during electronic interbank trading.

16.   To help end the political paralysis, Alexis pledged that new parliamentary elections will be held in November and December.

17.   But it brought near political paralysis to the closing days of the Reagan presidency.

18.   But the principles could return Bosnia to the ethnic-based political paralysis that preceded the war.

19.   Czech President Vaclav Havel is known to advocate the switch, which seems expedient ahead of a vote designed to end two years of virtual political paralysis.

20.   Italians seek end to political paralysis.