1.   If the schools face budget cuts, Taft said, they should not emphasize protecting jobs or school buildings over classroom education.

2.   Only when China faces a large international payments deficit, Dai said, would the authorities be forced to consider a devaluation.

3.   Some are thought to be cooperating with the investigation, and it was not clear Friday whether they would face criminal charges, the sources said.

4.   What the country now faces, analysts say, is a long, grinding, expensive and sustained campaign.

5.   Patrick Stevedore refused to pay wages in the meantime, saying it could face huge fines under the Workplace Relations Act if it did.

6.   If Dostum is facing an insurgency from within his own ranks, analysts say that opens the door for an easy Taliban sweep of northern Afghanistan.

7.   The rebels are fighting for an independent homeland for minority Tamils, saying they face discrimination.