21.   Such an ad hoc solution can never be effective in eliminating the economic gap.

22.   South African President Nelson Mandela invited Indonesia on Tuesday to boost investment and trade with his country to help bridge an economic gap between whites and other races there.

23.   The Baltic area, once teeming with commerce, is now split by a striking economic gap between its eastern and western shores.

24.   The island itself is near the center of the Baltic Sea, where the economic gap between its Eastern and Western shores is staggering.

25.   The government has actually tried to narrow the economic gap between the two ethnic groups.

26.   The violence is believed to be the result of religious intolerance aggravated by economic gap between the two communities.

27.   Within a period of seven months the economic gap between countries of the North and South widened further.

28.   He cited economic gaps between indigenous Indonesians and ethnic Chinese and a lack of tolerance between religions.

29.   They also said that loans would give priority to projects in inland China to help narrow the economic gap between inland and coastal areas.

30.   Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad Wednesday said a controversial policy which accords preferential treatment to ethnic Malays was still needed to bridge economic gaps among races.