71.   Mr Carstairs said with the increasing unemployment rate and deteriorating economic situation, Dah Sing would be more cautious in lending, and would check each applicant more stringently.

72.   NATO officials expressed concern over the deteriorating situation in Macedonia, where the government has been battling ethnic Albanian rebels near the Kosovo border.

73.   One fear, however, is that a deteriorating situation could force NATO to extend that limit.

74.   On Tuesday, Smith briefed Yasushi Akashi, the U.N. special envoy in former Yugoslavia, on the deteriorating situation in Bosnia.

75.   One fear, however, is that a deteriorating situation could force NATO to extend it.

76.   One of the main reasons for the deteriorating situation, Mendonca says, is criminal impunity.

77.   Russia is considering evacuating its ambassador and seven remaining nationals from Guinea-Bissau because of the deteriorating situation in the West African country.

78.   Shea, the NATO spokesman, said the air attacks responded to the already deteriorating situation in Kosovo rather than worsening it.

79.   Stromberg said the deteriorating situation also has delayed indefinitely a U.N. plan to fly the refugees to the Rwandan border, then repatriate them.

80.   Syrian President Hafez Assad held intensive talks with his Lebanese counterpart Friday on the deteriorating situation in southern Lebanon.