21.   Toshio Takahashi, an analyst at Kokusai Securities in Tokyo, estimates it will take more than five years for Oriental to recover its investment on the new facilities.

22.   A spokeswoman for Xinhua said the protesters wanted Xinhua to report their grievances to get the government to recover their investments.

23.   Enron was seeking to recover investments made before the deal was scrapped.

24.   He said it would kick in after the initial investment has been recovered, in two to three years.

25.   He said it would kick in after the initial investment is recovered, in two to three years.

26.   Hoffman thinks his company will recover its investment in two years.

27.   Sawyer is pushing on with its legal appeals and other efforts to recover its investment.

28.   Talks, mediated by a court-appointed administrator, began with the creditors over ways they could recover their investments, but those attempts have failed.

29.   The contract is a buyback deal in which the consortium is expected to recover its investment from the sales of oil and gas.

30.   The buyers, who had earlier been given assurances of support by DAR insiders, were left holding the proverbial empty bag, unable to recover their investments.