31.   Fund officials declined to provide further details of the pact.

32.   Fund officials have said they suspect the suit was initiated at the request of Lomonosov management to fend off the foreign investors.

33.   Fund officials would have to be willing to utter unpleasant news, in strong terms.

34.   Forty-three countries now follow that standard, but Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea are not yet fully in compliance, says a fund official.

35.   Fund officials are painting the meetings as a way of getting to know companies as its holdings overseas grow.

36.   Fund officials said the election of Horst Koehler, who heads the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, was now a foregone conclusion.

37.   Fund officials said this new and still emerging niche of health care also probably has the greater job-growth potential of the two.

38.   Fund officials will meet with representatives from the Bank of England, the Bank of Scotland, British Board of Trade and the pension fund of British Gas Plc.

39.   He says his officials were told by the International Monetary Fund to sell the grain to repay debt, a charge that fund officials deny.

40.   Monetary fund officials are expected to raise their concerns in meetings in Moscow next week.