1.   Carnahan also raised concern that states would need grandfather clauses to protect reforms underway in states such as Missouri, Michigan, Vermont and elsewhere.

2.   These investors said stocks, now at relatively low prices, will soon benefit from economic reforms underway in countries such as Mexico and Hungary.

3.   But Taiwan may be losing its hold in the region, as officials eye unprecedented free market reforms underway in China.

4.   Deteriorating health conditions in eastern and central Europe could threaten reforms underway since the collapse of communism, according to a UNICEF report released here Thursday.