91.   The State Statistical Bureau noted in a statement that problems persist in the debt-burdened state sector.

92.   The state sector also is handicapped by inflation of prices for raw materials, fuel and transportation as well as welfare costs, he said.

93.   The state sector dominates the defense industry, steel, mining, ports and telecommunications.

94.   The state sector includes everything from defense, steel and mining to hotels and restaurants.

95.   The state sector should play a balancing role in the domestic market by improving management and increasing supply, the Xinhua News Agency said.

96.   The state sector is being pared in Argentina and Uruguay.

97.   The weight of bad loans also has hampered efforts to overhaul banks to support other economic reforms, including modernizing the ailing state industrial sector.

98.   There was no mention of the widespread corruption by politicians and the burgeoning state sector payroll that perennially prevented Argentina from balancing its books.

99.   Wage debts are mounting in every state sector in this former Soviet republic despite frequent government promises to pay them off.

100.   Using corporate bonds is the latest in a series of steps government regulators are considering for dealing with the state sector crisis.