11.  Mega, according to Lebanese financial officials, has done little trading over the past five years.

12.  MTA financial officials said projects were the first priority, and that the agency then would do whatever was necessary to find the cash.

13.  Next Monday, moreover, American municipal and state financial officials are to meet in New York to discuss whether to continue punitive action against some Swiss banks.

14.  Neither man tops the lists of European financial officials.

15.  Protesters attempt to block the path of a van taking global financial officials to their meetings, Sunday.

16.  Russian financial officials are concerned that large quantities of speculative foreign money moving in and out of GKOs could destabilize the ruble.

17.  That would keep pressure off Japanese financial officials to respond in kind.

18.  The Central Bank of Ireland sent officials to Baltimore last week, and financial officials from the state of Maryland are conducting their own inquiry.

19.  The report would be used at such a summit, a senior financial official with the Blair government said in a briefing afterwards with reporters.

20.  The same wide cultural gap afflicts the anguished dialogue between U.S. and Japanese financial officials.