1.  When nationwide action was taken to reduce the number of macrolide prescriptions, the rate of resistant strep decreased sharply.

2.  Both state Television channels and some private stations simultaneously aired on Sunday a U.S. cartoon campaigning against drugs, in a nationwide action against rising addiction in Poland.

3.  The Norwegian children made or bought gifts for the nationwide action, and included a card with a personal greeting to a child in war-torn former Yugoslavia.

4.  The pickets are part of a nationwide union action.

5.  Thousands of teachers also were on strike, in a three-day nationwide action that began Tuesday.

6.  Another key French union, Force Ouvriere, has already called for nationwide action next Tuesday.

7.  Another key French union, Force Ouvriere, has already called for nationwide action Tuesday.

8.  Everything from government offices, postal and telephone services to state-run railways was hit by the strike, the second such nationwide action in about six weeks.

9.  Everything from government offices, postal and telephone services to state-run railways was hit by the strike, the second such nationwide action in barely a month.

10.  The threat of strikes has raised the spectre of the nationwide action which virtually paralyzed France for three weeks last autumn.