1.   The government responded to the payments crisis with a credit squeeze.

2.   A nagging payment crisis, which has left many workers unpaid for months, is getting worse.

3.   Last Wednesday, the United States expressed support for a deal among international lenders that would rescue Pakistan from its payments crisis.

4.   He has promised that the wage payment crisis would be a top priority of his newly revamped administration.

5.   Millions of Russian workers have gone unpaid for months in a nationwide payments crisis.

6.   The unconventional solution was prompted by a district-wide payment crisis.

7.   There is no painless way to get out of a serious balance of payment crisis.

8.   Yeltsin long has promised to solve the payment crisis, but failed to fulfill the pledge as the cash-strapped government continues to face a shortfall in revenues.

9.   His administration is facing a nationwide payments crisis affecting millions of pensioners and workers, including coalminers, teachers, doctors and nuclear power engineers.

10.   A CBI spokesman said a search of the offices of the high-flying firm were continuing and added that documents relating to the payment crisis have already been seized.