1.   Firstly, there are clearly some issues where member states are beginning to dig in their heels.

2.   It was such an important breakthrough, however, that other states immediately began to look into it.

3.   Slowly, states are beginning to relinquish control of their energy industries.

4.   The former communist states began opening up their Markets to foreign investment.

5.   Under President Ford leading Western states had begun to tackle their economic differences with greater determination.

6.   The state began publishing its accounts.

7.   Although many states have begun assembling the teams, the earliest the first team members will receive vaccinations will probably be in the fall.

8.   Also, the state has begun forcing the merger and restructuring of weak banks and corporations.

9.   And as the first states began to allow gambling, their neighbors moved quickly to join them in order to stanch the flow of revenue across state lines.