71.   This will force the government to choose between a banking crisis and a monetary crisis.

72.   To deal with the banking crisis, you need liquidity.

73.   To resolve the banking crisis, Japanese banks need to restructure themselves to improve their capital strength, Matsushita said.

74.   Unless confidence is restored, this slow-motion bank-run will cause a banking crisis, debt default and currency collapse.

75.   U.S. bonds fell in Asia as traders worried that the continuing banking crisis in Japan could force institutions to sell some of their Treasury holdings.

76.   While Japanese officials say the worst of the banking crisis has passed, few people here seem to believe that.

77.   William Seidman, former head of Resolution Trust Corp., is advising Japanese politicians on the banking crisis.

78.   Yet exactly this sort of moment of truth, setting off a mad rush for the exit, often marks the onset of a banking crisis.

79.   Years of deficits squandered on useless public works construction have left the government too indebted to act effectively in the banking crisis.

80.   Yes, Japan will have to dig out of its banking crisis, and it will.