1.   Britain is in an economic mess and we need level-headed, responsible leaders to pull us out of it.

2.   For nobody can understand what the Government is doing to clear up the economic mess it has created.

3.   Looking at the economic mess this country is in demonstrates clearly that we need some guidelines and we need them fast.

4.   There is still a way out of this economic mess, if Mr Gorbachev can summon up the courage to take it.

5.   We find it hysterically funny, though it is a sad metaphor for the economic mess this country is in.

6.   Now that nearly all the nations of Southeast Asia are reeling under a wave of currency losses, how will they extract themselves from their economic mess?

7.   Western diplomats in Sofia have made it clear they believe that because of the economic mess in Bulgaria, Dobrev should be allowed to create a government.

8.   Opponents also have increasingly called for him to step aside in favor of a younger, more democratic candidate to pull Indonesia out of its economic mess.

9.   Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov promised Saturday to continue privatizing state property and appealed for more long-term foreign investment to help Russia get out of its economic mess.

10.   After all, it was not the banks that directly caused the economic mess but rather the persistent policy and strategic errors of the central bank.