21.   A Hoechst executive said profits were under pressure from generic competition and government efforts to reduce prices -- the same factors afflicting the U.S. drug industry.

22.   Aid could come through innovative financing arrangements, unspecified changes in laws and beefing up government efforts to support cooperatives, which are exempt from antitrust laws.

23.   All this seems to show that government efforts to prime the economy are starting to pay off.

24.   Aliev is a vehement critic of Kazhegeldin, the former prime minister, and has helped lead a long government effort to discredit him.

25.   Brazilian stocks fell for a second day because of a delay in government efforts to pass a bill in Congress to cut social security spending.

26.   But before the Soviet Union fell it was finally being brought under control, through major government effort and expense.

27.   But despite government efforts to bolster a turnaround, many residents are still struggling to make ends meet.

28.   But Husamedin Halili, the mayor of nearby Lipkovo, said he supported the government effort.

29.   But international observers maintain that, though some technical flaws remain, they can find no evidence of a government effort to steal votes or alter results.

30.   But the NIH continued to channel its funds through the five major centers of the government effort.