31.  The accord annuls any pending lawsuits and protects Austria and all Austrian companies from future legal action related to slave labor.

32.  The bid was far ahead of the bids from two rival consortiums including Austrian companies.

33.  The company would not disclose the amount of damages it was seeking in the suit against the Austrian company and two of its senior officers.

34.  The building belonged to an Austrian company.

35.  The firm said Wednesday that it had erred in its press release and that the bank is not among Austrian companies being sued.

36.  The neo-Renaissance building belonged to an Austrian company.

37.  VOEST, along with Steyr-Daimler-Puch and Lenzinger Zellstoffwerke are the three Austrian companies believed to have used the most slave labor during the war.

38.  A spokesman for the Austrian company confirmed that talks on investment by Daewoo were being held but said that so far there was no conclusion.

39.  Austrian insurance company Wiener Allianz Versicherung on Tuesday dismissed allegations it had refused to pay out money to relatives of Holocaust victims.

40.  But Chancellor Schuessel, who initially approved the deal in principle last year, backtracked at the weekend saying that an alternative deal might involve Austrian companies alone.