1.   Co-operation agreements were signed with all these three countries, as well as with France and West Germany.

2.   Thanks to these two countries and the absence of UN-imposed sanctions, Spain would survive economically, albeit at the cost of enormous hardship to the populace.

3.   Through their straightforward colonial and convoluted imperialist trajectories the transnational practices of these two countries etched the forms of capitalism onto the global system.

4.   Americans will then be faced with a decision -- should we let these other countries make all this money?

5.   As Americans fret about crime and debate gun control, these two countries stand out as intriguing models.

6.   As the Taiwanese dollar and Korean won fall, exports from these two countries get cheaper.

7.   Beyond all the agreements and statements, the spate of meetings also offer a sketch of how relations between these four countries are beginning to take shape.

8.   In this one country, roughly half the size of Texas, twice as many people are infected with the AIDS virus than in all of North America.

9.   Instead, these five countries want the organization to negotiate a treaty banning bribery.

10.   It is the creditor of all of these other countries.