21.   Japan should strengthen its economic recovery by repairing its ailing banking system and spurring domestic demand instead of depending on export growth, a senior U.S. official said Tuesday.

22.   Officials were worried that Yeltsin would be tempted by foods that would hurt his ailing system.

23.   Rumors have long circulated that China would cut interest rates in hopes of shoring up the profitability of its ailing banking system.

24.   So far, nobody has come out with a full accounting of why it is absolutely necessary to use public funds to rescue the ailing banking system.

25.   The IMF suspended its Indonesian program in December after the country fell behind on a number of reforms, including promises to sell assets from its ailing banking system.

26.   The new program will include a restructuring of the ailing banking system and measures to tame public spending and speed up privatization.

27.   The University of Pennsylvania fired the chief executive of the financially ailing Penn health system on Thursday.

28.   Tokai and Asahi are among many debt-ridden Japanese banks that are requesting money from a public fund created last year to strengthen the ailing financial system.

29.   Tokyo stock prices finished sharply higher Wednesday on optimism Japan was moving ahead with plans to address its ailing banking system and boost economic growth.

30.   Toyo Trust is one of many Japanese banks requesting money from a public fund created last year to strengthen the ailing financial system.