11.   Analysts feared that the massive new funds to be created could push interest rates higher, making it more difficult for financially shaky companies to borrow from banks.

12.   But fear mounted among domestic investors that more shaky companies will be forced into bankruptcy by the strict conditions usually attached to IMF loans.

13.   Kang was also accused of pressuring banks to provide preferential loans to two financially shaky companies run by a relative and a friend, the prosecutor said.

14.   Stock prices took another plunge Tuesday as South Korean investors feared that terms of an upcoming International Monetary Fund bailout would force more bankruptcies of financially shaky companies.

15.   The high interest rates are certain to worsen problems of financially shaky companies, which already have difficulty in borrowing from banks.

16.   The move shocked tens of thousands of workers at those and other financially shaky companies that have been surviving on emergency bank loans.

17.   The move shocked tens of thousands of workers who work for those and other financially shaky companies, which have been surviving on emergency bank loans.

18.   The two were also charged with pressuring state-controlled banks to extend millions of dollars in preferential loans to three financially shaky companies during the crisis.

19.   Thousands of financially shaky companies have collapsed in the past six months as part of the IMF-set conditions.

20.   Thousands of financially shaky companies have collapsed in the past six months under the IMF-set conditions.