21.   That may have made sense for a foreign company weighing the risks of investing in a tiny country with a long history of domination by its neighbors.

22.   That was before their civil war, of course, before many Americans, including myself, had even heard of that tiny country.

23.   The modest nut transformed this tiny country into a scientific research lab that has been a leader in tropical medicine for more than half a century.

24.   The Rwandan trials are opening at a time when attitudes are hardening in this tiny Central African country, denting its hopes for a political and psychological recovery.

25.   The tiny country sought its security in a foreign policy of non-alignment.

26.   The tiny country, consisting of one square mile entirely surrounded by France, imports all its electricity from its giant neighbor.

27.   The victims were mostly members of the Tutsi minority from Kibuye, a lakeshore town on the western edge of this tiny central Africa country.

28.   They had come together to honor a man who had built his tiny country into the centerpiece of Middle Eastern stability and worked tirelessly for peace.

29.   This is, after all, not a question just for a tiny country in East Africa.

30.   This week, Lesotho, the tiny mountainous country encircled by South Africa, declared a state of famine.