21.   THAI stocks extended their slide for a second day after the government shut almost half its non-bank lenders, triggering a run on deposits.

22.   The government shut down non-essential services for the third day today with no end in sight.

23.   The government shut down the convent and its school, but Hummel continued to draw.

24.   The government has shut down several, accusing them of encouraging the spread of the AIDS virus with sexually tantalizing contents.

25.   The government then shut down religious intitutions.

26.   The government has shut six banks so far this year because of financial difficulties.

27.   The government is shutting the Weeks Island site because of a crack in the salt formation above the storage chambers.

28.   The slowing economy may make it harder for the government to shut down money-losing state companies as quickly planned.

29.   The slowing economy may make it harder for the government to shut down money-losing state companies.

30.   The Tokyo metropolitan government will shut down troubled credit cooperatives under its jurisdiction and ask other financial institutions to take over their business, a government official said.