31.   Macapagal-Arroyo, a former economics professor, has promised to pay special attention to the economy, including the ballooning budget deficit.

32.   Most key posts were filled previously, but Yeltsin on Wednesday named former economics minister Yevgeny Yasin as a deputy prime minister.

33.   Most key posts were filled previously, but on Wednesday Yeltsin kept former economics minister Yevgeny Yasin in the Cabinet, making him a minister without portfolio.

34.   Mustafa el-Saeed, a former economics minister, was hospitalized briefly after the clash Saturday in the Nile delta north of Cairo.

35.   Never mind that Arroyo is a former economics professor who went to school at Georgetown University in Washington with former President Clinton.

36.   Other choices included presidential economic adviser Alexander Livshits and former economics minister Alexander Shokhin.

37.   Report includes the reaction of former economics adviser Yegor Gaidar.

38.   Saeed, a British-born former economics student, is the chief defendant but three others are also on trial, accused of being his accomplices.

39.   Sadok Rabah, the former economics minister, became minister of social affairs, and Salah Baccari, counselor to the president, was named culture minister.

40.   Soz, a former economics professor, is the lone representative of the trouble-torn state of Jammu-Kashmir in the Cabinet.