21.   Taken together, the reports help illustrate the contrast in economic fortunes between the U.S. and Europe, traders said.

22.   The Clinton administration fastened on the latest Labor Department figures to boast of revived economic fortunes and continued low inflation.

23.   The Clinton presidency basks in its economic good fortune.

24.   The effort may create advantages for emerging industrialized economies, but all countries will find their economic fortunes diminished in varying degrees.

25.   The less obvious reason is that without the affluence of acquisitive Americans, most of the rest of the world would have no hope of reviving their economic fortunes.

26.   These voters have given Clinton a pass on this issue, telling him that he can burn the criminals he wants as long as black economic fortunes remain good.

27.   This is probably the first time in U.S. history that the head of the Federal Reserve System has been so crucial to overall economic fortunes.

28.   When goods and services are exchanged, those involved assume it will improve the economic fortunes of all parties to the transaction.

29.   When the project was unveiled, it was just what Kansas City and Wyandotte County needed to rejuvenate flagging economic fortunes.

30.   Wisely, Arab-Israeli working groups have turned to the politically possible, identifying realistic measures that require few political concessions but that could improve economic fortunes.