1.   And having presided over the longest period of economic prosperity in postwar history, Greenspan has come to appreciate the stabilizing effects of a more passive approach to policy.

2.   Anyone who doubts this view should ponder the postwar history of mass transit locally and nationally.

3.   But this is a novel written by a former dissident from Czechoslovakia, most of whose postwar history does not inspire optimism.

4.   Company officials also have hinted that the company might reinstate a dividend this year after omitting one for the first time in its postwar history last year.

5.   Few episodes of American postwar history have been treated with more solemnity than Watergate, particularly in Hollywood.

6.   If he completes his new term, he will become the longest-serving chancellor in postwar German history, surpassing his mentor, Konrad Adenauer.

7.   If it does, it will have been the longest period of sustained economic growth in postwar history.

8.   It was the worst rail crash in postwar German history and stunned the country.

9.   Nishimura was appointed earlier this month in a government shuffle when Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi formed the largest governing coalition in postwar Japanese history.

10.   Swapping the franc for the euro would end a postwar history of devaluation by successive French government and impose German-style policies to fight inflation.