21.   The weight of bad loans also has hampered efforts to overhaul banks to support other economic reforms, including modernizing the ailing state industrial sector.

22.   They predict he will cite continued risks to the economy, including the ailing manufacturing sector.

23.   Traders said it was good news for the ailing banking sector because it shows the industry is moving more aggressively to clean up its bad loans.

24.   Ukraine is looking to a large international arms expo this spring to buoy its ailing military industrial sector, defense officials said Tuesday.

25.   Yeltsin himself has raised concern in business circles in recent weeks by firing top reformist ministers and promising potentially budget-breaking subsidies to ailing economic sectors.

26.   An emergency action plan to salvage the ailing financial sector is a matter of when, not if, analysts said.

27.   Some economists have criticised the clampdown, saying it is starving the ailing state sector of foreign funds needed to upgrade operations.