11.   Those credits helped produce a high rate of inflation and slowed the already painful transition to a market economy.

12.   This flow virtually guarantees that when the painful transition period finally ends, eastern Germany will be the most successful part of what was once the communist world.

13.   Too much contact would have made the already painful transition even harder.

14.   Ultimately, he believes that Japan will pull itself out of its economic problems and dire mind-set to thrive again, albeit after many years of painful transition.

15.   While Russians enjoy their personal freedoms under the fledgling democracy, most have seen their standard of living drop in the painful transition to a market economy.

16.   After decades of success as a manufacturing and trading center, the territory is making a painful transition to a knowledge-based economy.

17.   But they have also left many of his countrymen worse off than before in the painful transition from paternalistic socialism to a market economy.

18.   For millions of people in the region, the painful transition away from communism is getting even more painful.

19.   Five years after communism began to be swept away, a few countries in the region are making the painful transition.

20.   In a country badly hit by poverty in the painful transition to a market economy, abandoned babies are not uncommon.