21.   A similar Argentine probe has not concluded.

22.   A U.S. antitrust case is entering its penalty phase and a similar European Union probe is under way.

23.   Investigators in other cities, including Rome and Florence, were studying similar probes of local Philip Morris distributors, the ANSA news agency reported.

24.   James declined to comment if a similar U.S. probe was planned, saying only such an investigation would fall under the authority of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

25.   Mrs. Ciller has survived several similar probes into her accumulation of wealth.

26.   Mrs. Ciller has survived several similar probes into her wealth, mostly with the help of her coalition allies at the time.

27.   Prosecutors in Bonn opened a similar probe against Kohl last month.

28.   Similar probes will have to be carried out on spots where Iraq says it had destroyed and buried the chemical agents and weapons.

29.   She has since backed a similar parliamentary probe against Yilmaz.

30.   The agency would not say whether it intended to launch similar probes of the other four housing loan companies.