21.   South Korea is asking Taiwan to scrap the deal with North Korea, calling it a serious environmental threat to the Korean peninsula.

22.   The companies, in their joint announcements, said only that they were scrapping the deal in the best interests of shareholders.

23.   The administration wanted the whole deal scrapped.

24.   The coalition government has warned that it would scrap the deal if charges against Enron were proven by a review committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister Gopinath Munde.

25.   The ministry may have to scrap the deal unless it can be concluded before the end of the fiscal year in two months.

26.   The North Koreans previously have threatened to scrap the deal with the United States and reactivate their nuclear program if a reactor contract was not signed by that date.

27.   The United States has tried to put pressure on China and Russia to scrap deals to provide nuclear reactors to Iran.

28.   The United States had urged China for nearly a year to scrap the deal with Iran out of fear Tehran would use the reactors to help construct nuclear weapons.

29.   However, there was no indication that Russia would scrap the deal altogether, as demanded by the United States.

30.   It has threatened to scrap the deal.