61.   Iliescu has promised to continue reform, but also pushed a populist message promising more social welfare and a review of the sell-off of the state sector.

62.   In China the state sector looms large.

63.   In addition, the state sector is required to sell its equity in the Electricity Generating Co, PTT Exploration and Production and Esso Thailand.

64.   In Russia, the people voted in enough communists to stall parliamentary efforts to liberalize prices and privatize the state sector.

65.   Instead, the figure is used as a multiplier to calculate wages and benefits throughout the state sector.

66.   In trying to introduce market reforms to its bloated state sector, China has allowed profitable state enterprises to take over or merge with money losers.

67.   It reaffirmed a commitment to maintaining the dominance of the state sector and strengthening government ability to guide the economy through such modern market signals as interest rate adjustments.

68.   Jiang and other top officials in the past year have been backing faster reform of the state sector.

69.   Maltese industry receives heavy government protection, and paring a budget deficit would likely mean cutting jobs in the heavy state sector.

70.   Millions of excess workers in the huge state sector are being laid off.