41.   Prime Minister John Howard announced Thursday that his federal government would no longer deal with Knight in negotiations over crucial Olympic funding.

42.   Q Surely, one portent that the uf government would not last long was the fact that some uf partners seemed permanently interested in an alliance with the Congress.

43.   Players initially turned bearish following a major economic newspaper report that the government will unlikely come up with a supplementary budget this autumn, traders said.

44.   After hearing similar vows many times before, investors and diplomats are waiting to see if the government will back talk with action this time.

45.   Aid workers said, however, there are persistent rumors that the government will close the camps if the Rwandan refugees do not leave on their own.

46.   Asked if Egypt and Syria were considering resuming flights, Mubarak said the government would no object if the private sector wanted to send in a plane.

47.   Bouteflika asked, and Levy assured him that the present Israeli government would.

48.   But Cardin said the U.S. ambassador to Romania, former Maryland lawmaker James Rosapepe, told him last month that the government would not challenge the latest court ruling.

49.   But some worry that erasing it completely might cause problems because the government would no longer be selling Treasury bills.

50.   Chretien called Whistler the best ski area in North America and said his government would back the bid during a visit Thursday to British Columbia.