21.   Drastic financial reforms have already been undertaken by those whose fate lies in the hands of others.

22.   Economists said the rate cut was aimed at raising sagging growth, but they said the Chinese economy needed more drastic reform measures.

23.   EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler told European farmers Monday if they want to preserve their sector they must accept the drastic reforms in farm spending he has put forward.

24.   Farm production will stagnate in Pakistan, jeopardizing millions of agricultural jobs if drastic reforms are not implemented, says a World Bank report released Saturday.

25.   In return for the help, South Korea promised to make its financial policy more transparent and take other drastic reforms that it hopes will attract foreign investments.

26.   Japan, with the prospect of an increased burden, has the right to request that the body work to implement more drastic reform.

27.   Koizumi vowed to push forward drastic reforms including privatization of state companies and cutting by half the number of Parliament members and government bureaucrats.

28.   Mahuad has extended through Thursday an emergency bank holiday that has shut banks since Monday to keep people from withdrawing their savings in anticipation of drastic economic reforms.

29.   Nasa Borba said that without foreign credits and drastic economic reforms, the Yugoslav state will go bankrupt within six months, and its economy will collapse.

30.   Shevardnadze reiterated a call for drastic reform of the CIS, which he criticized as being an ineffective body.