31.   When the big Baby Boom generation retires in the early decades of the next century, there will be fewer payroll workers per retiree.

32.   While China has allowed the controlled revival of monasteries that were destroyed in the early decades of Communist rule, the Serthar center had no official history or authorization.

33.   Early last decade, there was a spate of murders of suspected criminals here.

34.   Estonia hopes to be among the first group of former East Bloc nations who are expected to join the EU early next decade.

35.   Extramarital affairs were taboo in the early decades of communist China.

36.   In Puerto Rico, an independence movement grew in the early decades, to be suppressed by governors appointed by Washington.

37.   In the early decades of Chinese communism, workers held a privileged place.

38.   Leaders at the summit planned to invite the first group of ex-East bloc nations to start negotiations on joining the EU early next decade.

39.   Pressure for a reform of the EU funding system is growing as the Union prepares to take on five new members from eastern Europe early next decade.

40.   The EU is seeking to revise its funding programs to cover the cost of its planned enlargement into the eastern Europe early next decade.