11.   Not after last year.

12.   Oversight is so lax that the Finance Ministry says it discovered the Yamaichi losses only recently, even after years of market speculation about their existence.

13.   After years of trying to get elected as Thomas Wesson, the Dallas man now is campaigning as Tomas Eduardo Wesson.

14.   After years of trying to get elected as Thomas Wesson, the Dallas man now is calling himself Tomas Eduardo Wesson on campaign literature.

15.   Even talking about talks on these issues is seen as a step forward, after years of disagreement over how to tackle them.

16.   Then Wynette, with whom he had renewed a friendship and worked with again after years of acrimony, died after battling various illnesses for much of her life.