1.   The Brazilian government, wildlife trade watchdog agencies and breeders have offered their support to a breeding programme now in operation at Sao Paulo Zoo.

2.   And they strengthened a civilian police watchdog agency, giving it a larger budget and more investigators.

3.   As phone competition charges ahead, a state utility watchdog agency has warned that all consumers may not benefit equally from new competition.

4.   A new watchdog agency was set up after Lichtenstein was listed on an international roll of countries that had failed to adequately fight corrupt money flows.

5.   A report by the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency, found that Texas was well below the national average for nursing home complaints, McClellan said.

6.   But an analyst for the Citizens Budget Commission, a private fiscal watchdog agency, questioned whether police traffic officers might mean less attention to crime.

7.   But other key officials have said they want the ability to review the powers of various independent watchdog agencies.

8.   But the performance of the guards has been a longstanding concern of federal watchdog agencies.

9.   Cade, as the watchdog agency is called, said the association between the two companies must be dissolved within two years.

10.   Federal watchdog agencies had sharply criticized the agency for taking so little action.