11.   Race relations continued to haunt him.

12.   Relations will continue on this downward spiral, with more suspicion, more ill will.

13.   Relations continue to thaw.

14.   That is, if relations between Israel and the Palestinians continue to deteriorate toward violence, politics will again overtake economics and suffocate it.

15.   The Western diplomat said Cross-Straits relations would continue to be difficult to predict.

16.   But relations continue to be marred by economic disputes, notably over Russian import tariff on Ukrainian sugar.

17.   Economic relations continue to lag.

18.   Schroeder told reporters Yeltsin emphasized that good German-Russian relations must continue no matter who is elected to lead Germany.

19.   Relations continued to deteriorate between Washington and the EU, with the two sides giving opposing accounts of what had happened at a meeting of the World Trade Organization.

20.   Schroeder and Primakov pledged that Russian-German relations would continue to flourish.