1.   Although declaring war on the corruption that saps the economy, they sidestepped vexing uncertainties in investment law and financing regulations that foreign businessmen say are holding them back.

2.   In California, the Dole site asserts, the president has surrendered on drugs, dallied on crime and sapped the economy.

3.   Monopolies run by the military and its cronies have skewed and sapped the economy.

4.   The war is far from the famine areas, but it has sapped the economies of both these impoverished countries.

5.   It beat Hitler, but spawned a Cold War that killed millions in proxy wars and sapped the economies of both nations.

6.   The elections, however, are unlikely to end political violence and strikes that have plagued this South Asian nation and sapped its economy.

7.   The voting is unlikely to end the political violence and strikes that have plagued this Muslim-majority South Asian nation and sapped its economy.

8.   The voting is unlikely, however, to end the political violence or opposition strikes that have sapped the economy.

9.   The voting, however, is unlikely to end the political violence and strikes that have plagued this South Asian nation and sapped its economy.

10.   They urged motorists not to pay the toll, saying Suharto family businesses are corrupt and have sapped the economy of much of its wealth.