21.   The consensus among analysts is that the central bank will leave short-term rates unchanged Tuesday and continue with its neutral stance toward any future rate increase.

22.   This morning, however, the Bank of Japan refrained from adding funds to the banking system, adopting what money market traders termed a neutral stance.

23.   All the companies pledged to take a neutral stance toward union organizing drives, and to not take work away from a supplier whose factories organize unions.

24.   And he damaged his neutral stance by making political comments in newspaper columns and lectures.

25.   Army Commander Gen Chetta Thanajaro said he was stunned by the report, but added that he would maintain his neutral stance toward the national government idea.

26.   Dresdner RCM is underweighting its business exposure in Southeast Asia and Japan, overweighting it in China and is taking a neutral stance on Hong Kong and Taiwan.

27.   Economists say they are virtually certain the Fed at its Tuesday meeting will change its policy statement away from a tilt toward raising interest rates to a neutral stance.

28.   Fed policy-makers meet next week and many economists expect them to change their policy statement away from a tilt toward raising interest rates to a neutral stance.

29.   Fed policy-makers also discussed shifting their statement of possible future actions to a neutral stance, but made no change because of concerns it might disrupt financial markets.

30.   French Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, interviewed on French television late Friday, took a neutral stance on the takeover battle.