1.   A plague of uniformity is sweeping the world, numbing the taste buds and reducing the gene pool.

2.   The mortgage Market was one of two or three textbook cases that illustrated the change sweeping the world of finance.

3.   American popular culture and consumer products have swept the world, permeating the most distant and resistant societies.

4.   American-style capitalism is sweeping the world, and this country is no longer lagging behind in areas like car manufacturing.

5.   As such, it is part of a technological revolution sweeping the world.

6.   A similar philosophy seems to be fueling the current creatine fad sweeping the world of sports and bodybuilding.

7.   But a major rethinking of that role is in order in light of the changes sweeping the world.

8.   Five years after it took effect, NAFTA has become the leading impetus for the far-reaching transformations sweeping the world of Mexican business.

9.   If glam is sweeping the fashion world, Marc Jacobs, Hussein Chalayan and Geoffrey Beene have not been told.

10.   Nowhere in the United States military is tradition more hallowed than at this granite Gothic citadel, a bulwark against the violent tides of change sweeping the world outside.