1.   San Jose tried to revive bailout efforts after the banks abandoned the plan when the audit was released.

2.   These fights are not always regionally based, which is why the Southern California delegation has had such a tough time coalescing behind any bailout effort.

3.   Uncle Sam is on the hook in the Asian debacle to the extent Washington helps underwrite the bailout efforts of the International Monetary Fund.

4.   Yet he added that his cautiously optimistic assessment was based on an assumption that the recent bailout efforts would succeed in steadying the Asian economies.

5.   Amid the swings, the United States and the IMF dispatched top officials to Indonesia to discuss salvaging a faltering bailout effort.

6.   Amid the volatility, the United States and the IMF dispatched top officials to Indonesia to discuss salvaging a faltering bailout effort.

7.   In Seoul, investors worried that the economy would remain shaky despite an expected bailout effort by the International Monetary Fund.

8.   That proposal was put aside in favour of the US-backed idea of keeping the IMF central to any bailout effort.

9.   The Clinton administration and the International Monetary Fund to dispatch top officials in the next few days to Indonesia to discuss salvaging a faltering bailout effort.

10.   The effort to win support for the U.S. portion of the bailout effort was meeting strong opposition from both conservatives and liberals in Congress.