11.   A former agriculture minister, he holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University.

12.   British agriculture minister Nick Brown says Britain plans to eradicate scrapie just in case it is masking the presence of BSE.

13.   But should the agriculture minister not respond immediately, Isyaku said, he would attack him.

14.   But they are just a part of a coalition that includes a Communist central banker, a Communist aide for economic policy and a left-leaning agriculture minister.

15.   Cakir went to Ankara to plead with members of Parliament and the agriculture minister for debt relief, but he said he received no help.

16.   EU agriculture ministers are discussing today and tomorrow the planned U.K. response to the crisis, though it is not expected the ban will be lifted.

17.   European Union agriculture ministers Monday rejected pleas from the U.K. government to immediately lift the beef ban.

18.   EU agriculture ministers told the U.K. there was insufficient evidence to conclude that the measures to eliminate the disease could assure safe consumption.

19.   Finally, an outside possibility is agriculture minister Corky Evans, who settled in British Columbia as a Vietnam War draft resister.

20.   Gorbachev and then Boris Yeltsin tried incentives, they tried hectoring, they tried firing agriculture ministers by the bushel.