11.   Both Toyota and Nissan have promised for the time being to absorb any new duty costs and retain current prices.

12.   BP China is also concerned that the new duties will boost costs.

13.   ABC Realigns Its News Division ABC realigned the management of its news division, giving three executives new duties under the president, David Westin.

14.   All of a sudden, Saddam Hussein was tempted to poke at Kuwait while America seemed preoccupied with its new duties in the Caribbean.

15.   But because the new duties are aimed at particular items, certain producers will feel pain and presumably bring political pressure on European leaders.

16.   But since assuming her new duties, she has been lobbied heavily by a coalition of industries, mainly oil producers and refiners, to weaken the rules.

17.   But, she says, she plans to capitalize on her God-given talents as she takes on those new duties.

18.   Camporeale, who now holds the fort alone, will take up new duties at a weather station at Newark Airport.

19.   China will excuse some foreign-funded joint ventures from paying a new duty on imported capital goods, Chinese government officials say.

20.   Congress shares some of the blame, the report said, for failing to update laws giving FERC the authority it needs to carry out its new duties.