111.   Enron faced a cash crunch in part because some trading partners lost confidence the company would have the cash to pay bills.

112.   European trading partners stopped short of a legal confrontation with the United States over the law before the World Trade Organization in April.

113.   Even if an agreement flourished, South America would be hard pressed to supplant the United States or the European Union as a more active trading partner.

114.   Even among those Dominicans who denounce the mistreatment of Haitians, some turn up their noses at the thought of any closer relationship than that of trading partners.

115.   Economists said strong demand for Japanese products could revive trade friction with trading partners.

116.   England viewed an independent Texas as a profitable trading partner and a check on U.S. expansion.

117.   Farmers would boost their sales, and the United States would nurture struggling countries that might one day become strong trading partners.

118.   Everyone else is doing business with Cuba, but not the trading partner liable to make the biggest dent in the Cuban misery index.

119.   Exports reached a record despite a lack of significant growth for some major trading partners, while imports were essentially flat.

120.   First, it made such countries as Thailand, whose major trading partner is Japan, not the United States, prisoners of the yen-dollar exchange rate.