81.   Unlike in prior years, businesses would face difficulty getting foreign loans, he said.

82.   However, the authors of the study said it was clear that three percent increase in the number of millionaires represented a slowdown from prior years.

83.   In particular, he targeted the lucrative oil and gas industries, in which Chernomyrdin worked as a manager for years prior to entering the government.

84.   Both Wan and Tang were also convicted for having taken massive bribes in the years prior to the flooding, according to Xinhua.

85.   But analysts say the sector is unlikely to return to the torrid pace of growth of prior years.

86.   Overall restaurant sales were about even with the prior year but reported profits declined nine percent primarily as a result of poor domestic results at Pizza Hut.

87.   Pure year results are the underwriting results for the year of account specified without accounting for deterioration on any prior years closed into it.

88.   Still, the rate of growth slowed from the red-hot pace of prior years.