11.   But the Finance Ministry has been under siege recently for its mishandling of the economy and a banking crisis that has led to instability in the financial system.

12.   Can a banking crisis in rich, mismanaged Japan really explain the flight of investors from broke, mismanaged Russia?

13.   China, in a bid to avert a banking crisis, today stopped subsidizing new savings deposits.

14.   Clinton administration officials acknowledged that the Russians, faced last week with a spreading banking crisis, had little choice.

15.   Even those who contend that the government has the tools to circumvent a banking crisis brought on by domestic debt concede that the problem is serious.

16.   First came the banking crisis, and the blocking of bank transactions, including salaries and savings withdrawals.

17.   For all that has been printed, broadcast and said about a looming banking crisis in Japan, attention here has shifted from the banks to their borrowers.

18.   For hundreds of mom-and-pop businesses, though, the banking crisis begins and ends with the bankrupt Osaka-based lender.

19.   Given the developing banking crisis and the loss of confidence in international markets, the Kremlin had little choice.

20.   He became a symbol of the banking crisis in part because the collapse of Banco Progreso brought to light loose oversight by banking regulators.