31.   Albania has been shaken by violent demonstrations since two pyramid investment schemes suspended payments, leaving an estimated one million Albanians facing financial ruin.

32.   Albania has been shaken by violent demonstrations since the collapse of pyramid investment schemes that left an estimated one million Albanians facing financial ruin.

33.   Albania has been shaken by violent demonstrations since the collapse of several of the schemes that left an estimated one million Albanians facing financial ruin.

34.   Bernard Tapie, facing personal ruin as his creditors close in, was expected to name a new major shareholder of Olympique Marseille soccer club on Friday.

35.   ITV Digital is arguing the deal must be torn up or it could face ruin.

36.   ITV Digital, with pressing money worries of its own, is arguing that the deal must be torn up -- or it could face ruin itself.

37.   Shop owners, who said they faced ruin, joined the mass clearing up operation set underway Wednesday.