11.   He often criticized the prime minister for making control over French budget deficits and inflation a priority over solving the unemployment problem.

12.   Juppe also said that growing public deficits are making the unemployment problem worse.

13.   One of the distinguishing characteristics of the European recovery so far, in fact, is that it shows few signs of solving the unemployment problem.

14.   The anniversary was especially sensitive this year, as authorities wondered whether increasingly troubling unemployment problems might translate into political protest.

15.   The government recognizes the need to diversify and encourage foreign investment to help solve the growing unemployment problem, particularly among the majority Malays.

16.   Yet Bundesbank officials have stressed they cannot solve the unemployment problem with further rate reductions, urging instead deregulation of the labor market and lower wage costs.

17.   All the African nations in which the Asians are trying to obtain jobs already have serious unemployment problems.

18.   But we have hardly heard from anyone in the government about what is being done to deal with the unemployment problem at the front end.

19.   DAB member Chan Yuen-han, who won a seat in Kowloon East, said her priority was to help solve the unemployment problem.

20.   Federation of Trade Unions vice-chairman Leung Fu-wah said he expected the unemployment problem to spread to executive levels as well.