51.   Isolated and economically backwards, it needs increased trade and investment from the South to avoid economic collapse.

52.   It also comes as North Korea staggers through the advanced stages of a slow-motion economic collapse that has brought uncounted thousands near the brink of starvation.

53.   Indonesia and Russia are still falling like stones, their political chaos worsened by economic collapse, which in turn, provokes deeper political troubles.

54.   It is now scrambling to avoid a complete economic collapse, and BankBoston has a front-row seat from which to view the struggle.

55.   It is a very small part of a large nation trying to deal with a political revolution and economic collapse.

56.   It was plagued by economic collapse in its main markets, the United States and Japan, and later by price volatility.

57.   June and July see the economic collapse of East Asia.

58.   Later I learned that Jamaica, the largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean, is on the verge of economic collapse.

59.   Like Canada, Brazilian and Argentinian producers are looking for a new market following the Asian economic collapse.

60.   Last year, with financial panic in Asia, fears of economic collapse revived, but now analysts are swinging back to their earlier optimism.