31.   Analysts say the Cosmo bailout is only the beginning of what will inevitably be a massive public rescue of the financial system.

32.   An emergency LDP committee on stabilization of the financial system is set to meet later today to discuss the proposal.

33.   An emergency committee of his Liberal Democratic Party also met to debate ways to support the financial system.

34.   And he called for Japan to avoid delay in overhauling its financial system.

35.   And he called for Japan to overhaul its financial system.

36.   And he warned about allowing a buildup of debt within the financial system.

37.   Analysts have resumed handicapping merger possibilities they envisioned last fall, when a string of failures shook the financial system.

38.   And it has underscored the human misery caused by the burden of bad debt that continues to vex the Japanese financial system.

39.   And that may signal that the disposal of bad debt haunting the financial system is already in trouble, analysts say.

40.   And Merrill Lynch finds itself continually steering customers through the turbulence roiling the global financial system.