21.   The EPA said recent corporate failures are contributing to a decline in corporate confidence.

22.   The scandal helped drive Yamaichi Securities Co., the smallest of the four, out of business last month in the biggest corporate failure in Japanese history.

23.   Those corporate failures pushed Korean banks into a precarious corner, sending their international credit standing sliding and making overseas borrowing more difficult.

24.   Will the Aoki bankruptcy and market pressures trigger a wave of corporate failures?

25.   A prominentbanker on Monday said the country should brace itself for imminent corporate failures and the demise of some projects due to the prolonged financial crisis in the region.

26.   All come under the glare of public scrutiny this week as Congress delves into a huge corporate failure heavy with political overtones.

27.   Analysts predict Indonesia could face higher inflation, corporate failures, lower growth and worsening unemployment because of the financial crisis.

28.   Analysts said there were no news to boost the market and concerns over corporate failures still prevailed.

29.   Amid fears of more corporate failures, the government reversed itself Tuesday and said it will provide emergency funds to banks to stabilize financial markets.

30.   And bad loans held by banks soared and tightened bank credit has led to a string of corporate failures.