21.   Recent economic reforms have brought relative affluence, and the Vietnamese now enjoy far more meat than before.

22.   So, fearful of what painful reform will bring, people are defending the status quo without regard for ever more costly and painful consequences.

23.   The planned reforms may bring Chilean costs down to U.S. levels, Vittas said -- but not in the next few years.

24.   The reforms have already brought dozens of low-cost start-ups into the arena.

25.   There are no guarantees that even serious fiscal reform will bring investors back.

26.   These limited economic reforms brought a need for something resembling capitalist-style banking.

27.   Those reforms have brought the country billions of dollars in foreign investment and helped make the Czech economy one of the strongest in the region.

28.   Two days later he seemed to backtrack, saying that overall tax reform might not bring about a broad reduction in income taxes.

29.   Without the political stability the reforms may bring, badly needed foreign investment might have stayed away.

30.   A nationwide strike to protest pension reform brought Greece to a standstill Thursday with banks and businesses closed and tourists blocked from ancient sites or stranded on islands.