1.   Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade, but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade.

2.   And because the cushion was there, private investment quickly came back.

3.   A second investment in ITU came from Softbank.

4.   About half that foreign investment came the last two years, after Argentina largely deregulated telecommunications.

5.   Additional investment might come from potential aluminum customers in the transport, auto, packaging and trading industries, primarily in Asia, Gencor officials said.

6.   But neither investment would come close to a controlling interest, the magazine said.

7.   But the new investment is coming at the expense ofcampaigning in states such as Georgia and North Carolina.

8.   But vital foreign investment will not come in the amounts required and to the needy sectors until real stability comes.

9.   Determined to keep exports moving out and foreign investment coming in, China could try various steps to counter fresh competition from its Southeast Asian neighbors, Zhu said.

10.   Even foreign investment has come under attack in Parliament as a scheme to gain an economic stranglehold on Russia.