21.  A few Asian companies may actually begin the process of de-leveraging by taking debt off their balance sheets.

22.  A memorandum of understanding with one of six Asian industrial companies which submitted bids for the shares was recently signed, Sakrapan said.

23.  A number of Asian companies are about to become household names as they expand across their own region and into the West.

24.  A person close to the bank group said, however, that the banks were open to continuing talks with the Asian companies.

25.  According to them, an Asian company churning out televisions in a Mexican town for export to American consumers is the wave of the future.

26.  Also, prices of some exports could fall as markets get flooded with goods from Asian companies looking to make up for slumping domestic sales by exporting.

27.  But neither Samsung nor any other Asian company would be likely to keep any production in the Netherlands.

28.  But the devaluation of currencies also makes it more expensive for Asian companies to pay the expenses of their operations in the United States.

29.  Chemical prices have fallen as cash-strapped Asian companies step up exports.

30.  Chase Manhattan Corp. is looking east in a bid to provide Asian companies with access to capital markets in the United States.