21.   The widening scandal could make it easier for him, he said.

22.   Those gains were offset by losses in banks and securities houses as companies sold their cross-shareholdings and amid widening scandals.

23.   To be sure, the foreigners are cashing in on a widening scandal involving Japanese brokerages paying off a corporate racketeer.

24.   Tokyo prosecutors arrested two current and three former Yamaichi Securities Co. executives in a widening scandal over illegal payoffs to a corporate racketeer.

25.   Prosecutors recently raided two NEC subsidiaries and the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Defense Agency in a widening scandal involving corruption in military purchases.

26.   Reacting to a widening scandal, the government has revoked property it gave four Thais under a program aimed at helping the poor.

27.   A Finance Ministry official hanged himself Thursday, becoming the fourth Japanese official to commit suicide in a widening scandal over corruption in high places.

28.   A general was arrested Tuesday for allegedly leaking bidding information and taking bribes in a widening scandal over the construction of air force ammunition dumps.

29.   A traffic accident which revealed links between the government and the underworld has forced President Suleyman Demirel to step in and demand an accounting in the widening scandal.

30.   He is the first person charged in the widening scandal.