11.   A few doctors in Kostroma, some in desperate financial shape or simply ambitious, are slowly entering private medicine.

12.   A study of American cities by the Clinton administration says the strong national economy has left most of them in their best financial shape in decades.

13.   Aides to Gore said that the campaign was in strong financial shape, but the hurriedly scheduled fund-raisers and a campaignwide effort to cut costs belied their assertion.

14.   But Ansett went bankrupt last week, and Air New Zealand is in rocky financial shape.

15.   But he soon found that the company was in worse financial shape than he had anticipated.

16.   But perhaps most important, TWA faces its crisis in far better financial shape and in a far healthier industry environment than Pan Am did.

17.   But Jonathan Haddon, an OPIC lawyer until earlier this year, notes that the agency is in strong financial shape.

18.   But the authority is in better financial shape than anyone at its Madison Avenue headquarters has let on publicly or perhaps even in private talks with state officials.

19.   But the American nursing home industry today is itself in uncertain health, and some of its biggest operators may be in terminal financial shape.

20.   But the federal government will most likely be in even worse financial shape than it is today.