31.  Retail sales were stronger in the central states, yet heavy rains earlier in the year hurt crops.

32.  Retail sales were stronger in the central states.

33.  Scattered public transportation strikes in the central state of Aragua were reported by Radio Caracas Radio.

34.  Sandoval had come from the arid lands of central Michoacan state.

35.  Six policemen were killed last week when young guerrillas strapped a grenade to a dog and shooed it into a police station in central Tolima state.

36.  Sister Gertrude was the mother superior of a Benedictine convent in the tormented central African state of Rwanda.

37.  Spain is fighting to maintain generous aid payments it receives from the EU even after the much poorer central European states join the EU.

38.  The companies plan to set up operations in Indore, in the central state of Mahdya Pradesh.

39.  The company plans to start building the plant this year in Pederneiras in central Sao Paulo state and begin crushing in two years.

40.  The company is building a second unit at its Chiapas plant and another unit at its Silao facility in the central state of Guanajuato.