1.   Embassy officials have said that Makharadze, an economics minister, had diplomatic immunity.

2.   His economics minister is talking of currency union between the two Germanies by July.

3.   Their partners, the Free Democrats, have lost their economics minister.

4.   Monetarist ideas had considerable influence among economics ministers.

5.   Beilin has been economics minister for the past few months.

6.   Beilin, the economics minister, is pushing for a Jewish peace corps that would unite Jews around the world in a quest to improve things.

7.   Alexander Shokhin, a former economics minister and leader of the centrist faction, is deputy prime minister in charge of financial policy.

8.   Bundesbank Council Member Ernst Welteke, who previously served as the Social Democratic economics minister of the state of Hessen, placed part of the blame on German industry.

9.   But his chief economics minister, Kwik Kian Gee, appears at odds with the president.