1.   Several index fund officials laid out a variety of scenarios, which are surprisingly similar.

2.   An IMF team is scheduled to renew negotiations here on Monday and top fund officials are expected to come to Moscow for talks later this summer.

3.   And fund officials have even gone so far as to suggest that the operations of Gazprom, the huge natural gas monopoly, be split up.

4.   As a result, fund officials said, the Thais waited too long to devaluate the baht in order to make their exports more competitive.

5.   At the Park Avenue armory, fund officials refused to allow an inspection unless the state acknowledged that the fund owned most of the art and military regalia.

6.   A fund official declined to comment.

7.   A statement from fund officials contained no details about the bond issue.

8.   A technocrat and academic, Bambang Subianto, was named finance minister, replacing a nationalist figure who had alienated monetary fund officials and foreign investors.

9.   But fund officials in Washington discounted the reports.

10.   But Cardozo also noted that the fund also was hampered by a ruling of the Office of Government Ethics that prohibited any fund official from soliciting donations.