21.   Food and raw materials were short, gold and dollar reserves were depleted, and factories lay in rubble.

22.   Foreign exchange reserves are almost depleted.

23.   Foreign reserves were severely depleted in a futile defense of the peso during heavy speculative attacks on the currency last July.

24.   He has called on Egyptians to curb spending that depletes foreign reserves and told his ministers to reduce waste and cut costs.

25.   However, those reserves could be depleted rapidly if the bank is forced to prevent a run on the currency.

26.   IMF Deputy Director Stanley Fischer said Sunday that record lending to handle financial crises in Asia and Russia has depleted IMF reserves to historic lows.

27.   Miranda, however, did not explain why the reserves were being depleted.

28.   Reduced foreign exchange earnings threaten to deplete government reserves, while costlier imports will fuel inflation.

29.   Thailand is mired in its worst economic crisis in decades and at one point its foreign reserves were nearly depleted.

30.   The Central Bank had been intervening directly to shore up the ruble and bond markets, but this had dangerously depleted currency reserves.