21.   Industrial powers have been reluctant to commit themselves to major enterprises on the grounds that the Gulf market is small.

22.   International financial institutions have laid down the privatisation of major state enterprises in Azerbaijan as a key condition for finance.

23.   As managing director, he transformed Matra from a medium-sized company whose main business was sub-contracting to Dassault into a major industrial enterprise.

24.   It is very rich agriculturally, but also has major industrial enterprises and the port of Novorossiysk.

25.   Major state enterprises moving to a modern corporate system will have priority in receiving working capital and fixed asset loans, Liu said.

26.   On Wednesday a spokesman for state arms giant Rosvooruzheniye said the government had given five major military enterprises the green light to sign export deals independently.

27.   Pogrebenkov announced last month that the Russian authorities had given five major military enterprises the green light to sign export deals independently of Rosvooruzheniye.

28.   The authorities were worried that major enterprises here were trailing local small- and medium-sized firms in shifting operations to the mainland, it added.