21.   Chief Executive Andre Hilliou said the government and casino industry regulators have given no indication when the plans may be approved.

22.   Contempt, said the government.

23.   Economy Minister Alvaro Garcia said the government and industry will lobby hard to reverse the ruling.

24.   Entrepreneurs who start such companies and the industry experts say governments and investors must change their ways if Europe is to compete with America and Asia.

25.   Energy Prices Kept Inflation Down Inflation was muted in August, kept in check by falling energy prices, the government said in a report.

26.   Economists and welfare experts say state governments and job-training agencies are about to inherit the complicated task of matching welfare recipients with jobs.

27.   Families held off buying summer clothes in April and May, which were unseasonably cool, leading to a burst of spending in June, the government said.

28.   Forty-six are Mexican citizens, the Mexican government said.

29.   Four armed rebels, the government said, took over the plane in midflight and forced it to land on a remote road.

30.   German unemployment rose to a postwar high in September, the government said, with economic recovery failing to provide relief to an ailing job market.