21.   Aptus also extends a helping hand.

22.   Blacks have long lent a helping hand to other blacks struggling to make it in the white-dominated business world.

23.   Aides said Clinton hoped to lend Yeltsin a helping hand by downplaying stubborn disputes that dog a post-Cold War partnership.

24.   Although Chrysler needs a helping hand in Europe almost as badly as Volvo needs one in America, Mitsubishi looks the more promising partner.

25.   Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer also gave the dollar a helping hand yesterday.

26.   Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer also gave the dollar a helping hand.

27.   But he had a job that still allowed him to lend a helping hand.

28.   But if school and union officials hoped to get a helping hand from City Hall they were sadly disappointed.

29.   But in so doing, an anxious Ukraine says it needs a helping hand.

30.   But Japan was equally reluctant to accept foreign helping hands after Kobe, and for reasons that seemed to have no more substance than amour propre.