1.   Elsbury said he expects the ministry to make a decision on the award by March next year, putting an end to delays.

2.   Elsbury said he now expects the ministry to make a decision on the award by March next year, putting an end to a series of delays.

3.   Mitsuzuka said, though, the ministry will make a final decision only after assessing economic conditions further.

4.   Perhaps fearing that cities may have been polluted by biochemical warfare products from bombed factories, the Iraqi health ministry has made no effort to publicize the tragedy.

5.   Since last June, the ministry has been making outright bond purchases at the rate of about twice a month.

6.   The finance ministry is also making things difficult for the central bank in setting a clear policy.

7.   The health ministry makes much of scaling back total spending on elderly medical care.

8.   The ministries made the change partly because of the large sums of capital that had accumulated at the associations, which needed to invest the funds.

9.   Traders reported the ministry had made such requests today.

10.   Over the long term, the ministry should make it a policy to recruit more male teachers.