21.   China is pursuing benign enmeshment through calls for more people-to-people exchanges, increased Taiwanese investment on the mainland, and direct air and shipping links.

22.   Chilean stocks traded mixed as fading hopes of an interest rate cut this quarter offset increased investment from abroad.

23.   Chilean stocks reversed early gains as fading hopes of an early cut in interest rates offset increased investment by foreign mutual funds.

24.   Cardoso ran on a capitalist platform of increased foreign investment, privatization of inefficient state enterprises and fiscal responsibility.

25.   Chile hopes the Mercosur accord will attract increased investment from Asia or the U.S., with companies there looking to Chile as a platform for growth in Latin America.

26.   Establishing democratic legitimacy could bring increased foreign investment, making economic adjustment considerably less painful.

27.   Feldstein acknowledges that the short-term growth effects linked to increased investment and risk-taking are probably too modest to count in budget projections.

28.   For its part, a grateful Taiwan may seek to soften the blow Panama has suffered with promises of increased investment and aid.

29.   Foreign analysts said that while the investment environment might be improving, the change in tax policy was clearly the main factor behind the increased contracted investment this year.

30.   Granted, growth will depend on increased investment in infrastructure sectors such as power, telecommunications, oil, ports and roads.