1.   Several other senior ministry officials took pay cuts and were subject to disciplinary action.

2.   At Borderway on Tuesday county auctioneers are meeting a senior ministry official, Richard Cowan, to discuss the problems.

3.   Although it rarely happens, one call from a senior ministry bureaucrat can frighten off customers and tie a bank up in knots.

4.   A senior ministry official said the government expects the overall trade surplus to shrink more as oil prices rise.

5.   A senior ministry official said the government expects the overall trade surplus will continue to shrink and that auto exports will continue to rise.

6.   But Barak would have to receive a senior ministry, probably Defense, to agree to a merger.

7.   But on Monday, a senior ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity declared that system dead.

8.   Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka and senior ministry officials said the reserves will be enough to cope with future banking failures.