1.   It retreated on concern that even as Asian nations try to mend their economies, more financial institutions are likely to suffer.

2.   To be sure, even as Asian nations work to mend their economies, more financial institutions are likely to go under, analysts said.

3.   Azerbaijan hopes the oil deal will help mend an economy badly battered by six years of war with neighboring Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

4.   Duhalde urged Argentines to remain calm while he tries to mend the economy and quell simmering social unrest.

5.   French Prime Minister Alain Juppe said Wednesday that France must mend its economy before joining a single European currency or it will lag behind with poorer European countries.

6.   Mahathir has repeatedly snubbed Western prescriptions for mending the economy, calling them veiled attempts to recolonize Malaysia and other Asian countries hobbled by the recent economic crisis.

7.   The president repeatedly was frustrated when the legislature blocked or watered down key legislation designed to mend the economy.

8.   But Stoyanov warned his compatriots that mending the economy will be long and difficult -- whoever comes up the winner on Saturday.