21.   After a rescue plan that slashed shareholder equity, Banesto was bought last April by Banco Santander.

22.   After the failure of the rescue plan in Russia, Rubin and Clinton have a lot riding on their bet in Brazil.

23.   Aides to Clinton are fearful that if Social Security becomes sharply politicized this year, it could poison the environment for a comprehensive, bipartisan rescue plan next year.

24.   But administration officials expressed confidence that congressional leaders from both parties are solidly behind the rescue plan and that it will be passed soon.

25.   But financial markets and economists appeared unimpressed with the details of the fifth rescue plan announced since October.

26.   But just before his imprisonment, Le Floch unveiled a new rescue plan to reorganize the unprofitable national railway.

27.   But it had kept putting off dealing with the bad loans, withholding them from audit reports as it waited for a rescue plan to be drafted.

28.   But the opposition groups fought back, forcing the Liberal Democrats to abandon their rescue plans.

29.   Canadian Airlines International persuaded its largest union to take wage cuts as part of a rescue plan for the cash-strapped carrier, a machinists union spokesman said.

30.   Canadian Airlines would like AMR to cut its fees by about one-third as part of the rescue plan.