11.  Gore encouraged Putin to pursue more intensive talks on Start III and the ABM treaty, the statement said.

12.  Guttenfelder said the statement left no doubt in his mind that U.S. soldiers had ordered the militiamen to chase the photographers and seize them and their equipment.

13.  He had been receiving cancer treatments, said a statement from Niagara University, in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

14.  If I say some racial statement, it may affect the four or five people around me who hear it.

15.  Instead, he decided to try and pay it all off by maximizing the value of his existing businesses and exploring new business opportunities, the statement said.

16.  James was eventually released but told by the officers to remain silent about the incident, the statement said.

17.  Nasir Tamara, deputy chief editor of the newspaper Republika, said statements like this sound a jarring note in a political system that values consensus and quiet dialogue.

18.  Right now the central bank is selling rubles to prevent the dollar from sliding faster, said a statement released by the bank.

19.  Sarles will immediately begin a search for a chief executive to run the card business, the statement said.

20.  Seven companies that failed to deposit license fees were given two more weeks to do so, the statement said.