91.   The disaster has laid bare the environmental ravages of ill-conceived communist central planning and more recent decades of breakneck economic growth.

92.   The controversy has laid bare a crisis in Thai Buddhism at large.

93.   The crash of a leading bank has laid bare a sordid alliance between politics and business in Croatia, along with dangerous flaws in its economic reforms.

94.   The executive board of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization selected Matsuura following a campaign for the post that laid bare some regional rivalries.

95.   The full horror of the Omagh bombing was laid bare Monday as police confirmed the identities of all but one of the dead, among them two baby girls.

96.   The petitioners come in ones and twos to lay bare their stories of love gone bad and beg the court for relief.

97.   The surreal scene laid bare the nature of a sport whose brutality fascinates countless fans, yet whose inherent danger can prove deadly.

98.   The surprise that greeted the collapse of these economies laid bare another weakness -- the lack of transparency.

99.   But that masks a deeper concern within the industry, which was laid bare at a forum organised by Economist Conferences last week.

100.   Clinton reaffirmed his belief in a balanced budget but railed against spending cuts in sharp language that laid bare the partisan philosophical differences between Democrats and Republicans.