51.   Last month, citing a rash of fly-by-night operations like the one that tricked Fu, the Chinese government banned all door-to-door selling, or direct sales.

52.   Last month, citing a rash of fly-by-night operations the Chinese government banned all door-to-door selling, or direct sales.

53.   Last week the Australian government banned French aviation company Dassault SA from bidding for a defense contract.

54.   Last week the Australian government banned French aviation company Dassault SA from bidding for a defense contract here.

55.   Next the Pakistani government banned press conferences and public statements by the Taliban ambassador, the last voice of the fundmamentalist government outside Afghanistan.

56.   Now, both governments have actually banned, for the time being, any further research by anyone in the remote Yanomamo lands.

57.   Presumably they were officially sanctioned volumes that disparaged a group that the apparently rattled Chinese government banned in July.

58.   Profits at Chinese securities companies slumped last year in tandem with trading volume after the government banned bond futures trading, a big money spinner.

59.   Prompted in part by this incident, the Belgian government banned all Coke products the following day.

60.   SHANGHAI B shares stocks took their biggest tumble in two weeks after the government banned the use of bank loans to buy shares.