1.   Although China accounts for only a tiny portion of sales by Massachusetts computer makers, many of them see the country as a promising new market.

2.   Create a promising new market niche, and Microsoft may soon follow with its armies of programmers and its marketing muscle to crush the fledgling company.

3.   Czarist Russia was a promising emerging market and a friend of the United States before its October Revolution.

4.   For breath-tester companies that once focused on police departments, transportation businesses and bars, anguished vice principals have become a promising new market.

5.   For Taiwan, relations with Central America and the Caribbean provide both political legitimacy and a promising market for trade and investment.

6.   Greyhound Lines Inc., now the only coast-to-coast bus system, has thus had to stand by as far smaller competitors came to dominate a promising market.

7.   In the meantime it started developing products for new, promising markets, such as diagnostic tools for local-area computer networks.

8.   India also is a promising market for European and Japanese products,

9.   It all adds up to a promising market for Northwest finished forest products companies.

10.   Japanese corporations and investors are adding the Republic of South Africa to their list of promising markets for investment and trade.