31.   China Tire said its partner in the venture, the Shanxi provincial government, agreed to help resolve the personnel dispute.

32.   Canana sits on property owned partly by the provincial government and partly by a private company.

33.   Corruption and incompetence, particularly in provincial governments, are major issues.

34.   Enter the newly elected provincial government under the separatist Parti Quebecois.

35.   Even the pro-unification New Party, which opposed the abolition of the provincial government, says unification could not happen under current circumstances.

36.   For example, Bezuidenhout said, when a provincial government was letting a contract for its banking it favored companies that had developed affirmative action programs.

37.   For decades, Franklin says, the provincial government focused on industry, granting rights to large swaths of crown land to the locally based Irving conglomer-

38.   Four were high officials of the provincial government.

39.   Gardez has also been the site of violent standoffs between local leaders feuding for control of the provincial government.

40.   Guangdong Investments, a diversified conglomerate controlled by the Guangdong provincial government, recently spun off its brewing and tanning companies.