21.   Our medium term plan sets out a programme for developing the business we currently have in North America and Europe.

22.   Analysts conceded that, in the medium term, the transaction was good news for Axa.

23.   But in the medium term, it could bring forward new general elections and stimulate a far-reaching political realignment in Japan.

24.   Certainly in the medium term, newspapers will be careful about the sort of photographs they use.

25.   For the medium term, Jaffre was somewhat more buoyant.

26.   However, it will supply programming, which analysts said is worth more to the company in the short to medium term.

27.   In the medium term, Albright said, the goal is to get Iraq to comply with U.N. resolutions, including a functioning regime of weapons inspection.

28.   In the medium term, stocks could rise as pressure grows on the central bank to reduce interest rates in order to boost the economy.

29.   In the medium term, larger raids, more regular ambushes on U.N. convoys, and harassment and shelling might become the order of the day.

30.   In the medium term, however, analysts said Karstadt is the preferred investment.