51.  Initial suspicions pointed to Corsican separatists, who have carried out a number of bomb attacks on symbols of the French state on the mainland in recent weeks.

52.  Ambitions by the French state to develop airlines dominating the domestic market as a base for building a major world airline have been severely compromised.

53.  BAe continued to back the Lagardere Groupe in its attempts to buy the French state defence-electronics company Thomson-CSF, BAe president Sir Richard Evans said.

54.  Bull, which is controlled by the French state, is emerging from severe financial problems and is being privatised through direct sales to interested industrial parties.

55.  But he also implied that Daewoo Electronics would have to have subsidies from the French state towards the cost of acquiring TMM.

56.  But the minister sharply attacked the French state for not supporting French firms wanting to invest in Russia.

57.  But the former state monopoly, which is being helped by the French state which is taking stock as dividend instead of precious cash, sees recovery ahead.

58.  Controversial offers by Daewoo of South Korea to unburden the French state of Thomson Multimedia and a bank in Marseille continued to stir anger on Tuesday.

59.  Credit Lyonnais, now privatized, was owned at the time by the French state.

60.  Dealers were also concerned that looming cuts in French state spending might provoke industrial unrest in the short term and this was a factor causing the franc to slip.