11.   Also, the mail was going through increasingly mechanized regional centers, rather than city to city, ruling out old-fashioned hand sorting by city and state and neighborhood.

12.   But the groundwork has been laid for El Salvador to compete as a regional center for industries across the board.

13.   By opening the fund market, Taiwan hopes to bolster its bid to enter the World Trade Organization and help make itself into a regional financial center.

14.   Deng, the rebel economist, is also working to create a full-fledged bank in Yambio, a regional trading center near the Sudanese border with Congo.

15.   Euro Disney could, for example, build Disneyland Paris into an important regional center, complete with shopping malls, office buildings and housing, he said.

16.   From these regional centers, the containers would be moved by truck, but the trucks would be operating in less congested areas.

17.   He said that the presence of smaller regional centers is important because it serves people in the community and gets people interested in donation.

18.   He will call for stockpiling more supplies in regional centers closer to the areas of conflict.

19.   Hong Kong will keep its role as regional shipping center even after China and Taiwan establish direct links in March, a Hong Kong government economist said.

20.   In Denmark and Canada, top military officials are pushing initiatives for regional centers where standby forces would train for multinational deployment.