41.   The poorer nations have taken a cue from the policies of the United States and Europe, he said.

42.   The richer nations will be taking the lead from them, he said.

43.   They realize the nation has taken something of a public-relations beating, with news reports raising the specter of a dictatorship and a possible round of nationalizations.

44.   This was the first step taken by nations trying to tackle collectively this new scourge of war.

45.   To clean up its banking sector, which is weakened by bad loans, the nation may take responsibility for some of the debt now held by private companies.

46.   Today, as the nation again takes extraordinary action to seek out hidden evil among us, check your local listings for another revival.

47.   Turnover in Congress was rapid in the earliest years of the republic, when governing a small, agrarian nation took little time.

48.   When Communism collapsed, European nations took in people coming through the Berlin wall.

49.   While sharply critical of major nations, Human Rights Watch said some smaller nations had taken tentative steps to improve social, economic and political freedom.

50.   Yet Japanese Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said today the Group of Seven industrialized nations will take action if the yen declines further.