71.   Market watchers said investors were growing impatient with repeated delays in the rollout of the economic package, first expected two weeks ago.

72.   Mr Yamasaki also said the size of fiscal spending for the upcoming economic package would top eight trillion yen.

73.   Most investors remained slidelined, awaiting further details of the economic package, brokers said.

74.   Newspapers said his decision was postponed partly because it would have been embarrassing to see it so soon after the announcement of the economic package.

75.   On Tuesday, Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz announced an economic package to try to improve its trade balance, by reducing imports and increasing exports.

76.   On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, prices were only slightly higher because the economic package was largely in line with market expectations, traders said.

77.   On the Tokyo Stock Exchange, prices were only slightly higher because the economic package proved largely in line with market expectations, traders said.

78.   On the stock market, jitters over the economic package sent share prices tumbling.

79.   One million new jobs were expected to be created once the new economic package has been implemented, the governing party said.

80.   Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and other senior officials in his ruling Liberal Democratic Party had threatened to scrap the economic package in response.