21.   The number of business reporters and news pages has not grown commensurately.

22.   They remain strict in forbidding business reporters and editors from having any financial stake in the companies they cover.

23.   Unlike war correspondents or crime reporters, many young business reporters are happily unaccustomed to working in close proximity to violence and the loss of life.

24.   When I was a young business reporter, I liked nothing better than to find myself covering a new corporation.

25.   But Chuan was wary, in talks with business reporters late Thursday, of stating that the Thai economy had reached rock bottom and was on an upturn.

26.   Times business reporter and columnist Greg Heberlein saved money before the strike but worried about finances because his wife recently lost her computer-programming job.