1.   A recent commentary in The New Light of Myanmar called democratic freedoms a Western notion that can retard economic growth.

2.   A recent commentary in Moskovsky Komsomolets, a pro-reform newspaper, noted that middle-ranking officers had pinned their hopes on Lebed.

3.   In a recent Wall Street Journal commentary, he recommended voluntary screening such as Israel uses.

4.   Karl Peterjohn, executive director of the Kansas Taxpayers Network, put fiscal developments in perspective in his most recent weekly commentary.

5.   One disturbing tendency in the recent commentary is an insistence on conformity with the perceived national mood.

6.   Recent international commentary focusing on him as a world leader whose decisions will count the most in shaping global financial developments is ludicrously unrealistic.

7.   The Dallas-based National Center for Policy Analysis, a leading refuge of supply-siders, echoed the Investors Business Daily editorial in a recent commentary.

8.   The most enlightening discussion of the dividend solution so far was a recent Wall Street Journal commentary by Jeremy J. Siegel, the highly regarded Wharton School finance professor.

9.   His speech repeated almost word-for-word recent commentaries in the state-controlled press.

10.   Recent commentary in the state-run China Daily complained that despite rate cuts, real interest rates remain high due to declining inflation.