21.   Before Matsushita spoke last week, there had been speculation the central bank would raise a key money market rate as soon as this month as the economy recovers.

22.   Berlin presented the segments to Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier this month as a remembrance of the Cold War, as symbols to be placed in a memorial garden.

23.   Beyond sketching out his proposals for entitlement programs and education, he has not drawn a large-scale picture of his agenda for his remaining months as president.

24.   Bond yields jumped to their highest this month as unexpectedly strong factory orders for durable goods in July fanned concern that inflation will accelerate.

25.   Bonds rallied in recent months as investors bought U.S. assets as a haven from tumbling Asian currency and stock markets.

26.   Both Chirac and Vedrine, for example, both charitably refrained from describing the collapse of the trade talks in Seattle early this month as an American failure.

27.   Both nominations have been held up by the Senate for months as unacceptable.

28.   Bowman, Tucker and Gottlieb have worked basically without pay during the first months as a private clinic.

29.   Bonds rallied in recent months as investors bought U.S. government securities as a haven from tumbling Asian currencies and stock markets.

30.   A federal judge in Little Rock threw out the case earlier this month as having no legal merit, and Jones is appealing.