61.   Foreign bank officials said applications to buy foreign currencies or transfer money abroad have soared fivefold, mostly because of worries about China.

62.   He suggested a system that would allow investors to buy foreign currency only to build factories or produce goods and services.

63.   However, he said Chinese authorities still will decide how much money companies may keep in accounts that can buy foreign currency.

64.   However, black-market vendors adjusted their rates and continued selling and buying foreign currencies on the streets.

65.   Importers had to show signed import contracts demonstrating that they needed to buy foreign currency to do business.

66.   Importers were also constrained, and had to show signed import contracts to demonstrate that they needed to buy foreign currency to do business.

67.   In currency trading, the dollar advanced as Japanese importers bought the currency against the yen to settle end-of-month accounts.

68.   In their closed-door talks, the officials agreed their central banks would flood the market with dollars while buying other currencies.

69.   Interbank players bought the currency to cover their short, or oversold, dollar positions.

70.   Meanwhile, the Clinton administration took steps to halt the decline of the dollar by buying the currency on the open market for the first time in a month.