11.   Badillo, who declined to be interviewed Friday, has been in a battle with many leading Hispanic politicians for years.

12.   A leading politician of the ruling political party also contributed to the decline by saying the government may increase spending to stimulate the economy, traders said.

13.   A leading politician in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party said his party will seek to pass a supplementary budget, according to a report in the Jiji Press.

14.   But in a sign of the increasingly ugly mood toward America, two leading Russian politicians characterized the attack as a legitimate response to NATO airstrikes.

15.   But it is his critiques of leading Russian politicians that are most likely to tantalize Russian readers.

16.   But most leading politicians support the idea, as do many ordinary people.

17.   Coverage this year of the Indian uprising in Chiapas state and of the assassinations of two leading politicians was at times tough enough to break new journalistic ground.

18.   Crime, for instance, is routinely portrayed by the media and leading politicians as a foreign pursuit.

19.   France is awash in corruption scandals involving some of its leading politicians and top business executives, but the public seems to care little about the revelations.

20.   He made no reference to government pressure to funnel money to the conglomerates, which in turn supplied millions of dollars to leading Korean politicians.