31.   The UN agency is anxious to replenish dwindling stocks which have hit rock bottom because of a two-week shutdown caused by Serb threats to aircraft.

32.   The Red Cross said Friday it urgently needed to replenish dwindling stocks of medical supplies in Bihac town in northwestern Bosnia to prevent a humanitarian crisis.

33.   Nonetheless, the market has held relatively stable, in the face of dwindling crude stocks in consumer countries, the analyst said.

34.   Oil prices, in contrast, are flaring up again, fuelled by dwindling stocks in consumer countries, especially in the United States.

35.   Some newspapers have simply closed their doors while others are looking at reducing page numbers to cope with dwindling stocks and crippling prices.

36.   The herring situation is likely to exacerbate the broader crisis over dwindling stocks in European waters.