71.   Analysts also suggested that traders with long positions, obligating them to take delivery, were bailing out on the eve of the expiration of the November soybeans contract.

72.   At expiration, investors can take delivery either in gold or in the ruble equivalent of the metal, based on the current world price.

73.   But a spokeswoman at the Italian Central Bank said it was prepared even if retailers waited until the last minute to take delivery of the new currency.

74.   Broken Hill Propriety Co. Ltd. said Monday it has taken delivery of a new ore carrier ship, the Iron Yandi, from Daewoo Heavy Industries in South Korea.

75.   Cathay Pacific also took delivery of information technology equipment from the manufacturers.

76.   Buyers declined to take delivery of crude because official prices for December have not been approved by the U.N. sanctions committee.

77.   China has taken delivery of the first of a number of Kilo-class submarines purchased from Russia.

78.   Cited by the Bernama national news agency, the unnamed Rosboronexport official said the Royal Malaysian Air Force would take delivery soon of Metis-M missiles.

79.   Certainly the spell when buyers of certain marques and models had to wait for more than six months to take delivery of their cars, is past.

80.   Cyprus is scheduled to take delivery of the missiles in August.