21.   Shrinkage in those sectors has plunged the country into recession and forced hundreds of thousands of people out of work.

22.   Still others have argued that putting more pressure on Kabila could undermine his shaky grip on power and plunge the country into new violence.

23.   That could trigger fresh elections, plunging the country into political turmoil.

24.   The fighting has plunged the country back into the kind of anarchic violence it endured during six years of civil war.

25.   The pro-democracy forces have said that nearly three decades of military gangsterism and killings have finally plunged the country into the abyss.

26.   This week, the government ended two years of currency exchange controls that had crippled the economy and plunged the country into high unemployment and double-digit inflation.

27.   Those plans were put on hold, though, when Mexico devalued the peso in late December, precipitating a financial crisis that plunged the country into recession.

28.   Opposition lawmakers alleging President Joseph Estrada pocketed gambling money filed impeachment charges against him Wednesday, plunging the country into political crisis.

29.   A fragile economic recovery is cut short, plunging the country back into recession.

30.   A Brazilian devaluation earlier this year brought renewed pressure on the Argentine economy, plunging the country into a recession.