41.   As a result, utility companies are looking for cues overseas, from countries like Israel that have lived with the threat of such weapons for years.

42.   As a destination in its own right, Dubai already attracts tourists from Europe and neighboring countries like Saudi Arabia.

43.   As a result, countries like Thailand, Korea and Indonesia, whose currencies were pegged around the rising dollar, became much less competitive.

44.   As a start, child rights groups in countries like Cambodia, Thailand and India want advertisements for sex tours banned in Europe, Japan and other countries.

45.   As countries like the Philippines begin to come of age environmentally, they are awakening to a toxic disaster at former and current US bases.

46.   As Europe races to adopt a single currency, Spain, Portugal and Ireland are growing much faster than bigger and wealthier countries like France and Germany.

47.   As for a connection between bin Laden and another country like Iraq, Lesser said it would not be unexpected.

48.   As relief experts are well aware, confusion is customary in the tumult that follows disasters, even in developed countries like the United States.

49.   As the daughter of a diplomat, she had to fit into foreign cultures as the family hopped between countries like New Zealand and Ghana.

50.   As the Russian crisis deepens, volatility in more economically significant countries like Brazil and Argentina is also eating into the profits of some financial concerns doing business there.