41.   She said that the Bissells had fallen months behind in mortgage payments and the bank had started foreclosure proceedings against their home.

42.   So the national government has started court proceedings to allow Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to sign the lease.

43.   The case involves Quebec City lawyer Guy Bertrand, who has started legal proceedings against the Quebec government, contesting the validity of its bid to secede from Canada.

44.   The Australian Securities and Investments Commission started civil proceedings against the former managing directors, Jodee Rich and Bradley Keeling, and the former chairman, John Greaves.

45.   The commission has started legal proceedings against all those countries because it says EU law forbids such bilateral accords.

46.   The commission is about to start legal proceedings against member states for signing bilateral accords with the U.S. that infringe EU single market legislation.

47.   The European Commission said it started legal proceedings against the U.K. and Belgian governments, charging that they used illegal means of protecting their domestic brewers.

48.   The decision to start insolvency proceedings allows the company to remain in business while it tries to negotiate a rescue plan with creditors.

49.   The guidelines point out that the INS, like any prosecutor, is not bound to start proceedings in every case.

50.   The most recent was a small firm, Maruso Securities Co., which Tuesday asked a Tokyo court for permission to start bankruptcy proceedings.