41.   All the hugs and tears were a welcome sign that the two Koreas are continuing to make progress towards unifying their divided peninsula.

42.   But he had nothing new to report in terms of progress towards reaching an agreement on exactly how the company would be structured.

43.   Expect the relationship between all European Union currencies to be subject to strains as the formal progress towards currency union proceeds.

44.   For three weeks after Dartmouth professors Half and Susanne Zantop were found stabbed to death in their study, investigators made little apparent progress towards an arrest.

45.   German concern about the single currency is fueled by slow progress towards the Maastricht targets on deficits, debt, interest rates and inflation.

46.   Hopes are the force could buttress police efforts, speed civilian progress towards peace, and possibly remain as quasi-peacekeepers after overall NATO troops withdraw.

47.   If there were a realistic hope of progress towards a decent political arrangement, the punished Palestinians might decide that enough was enough.

48.   In the end it did, resulting in an uneasy standoff and no noticeable progress towards democracy.

49.   Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp continued at a secret location amid conflicting accounts of progress towards agreement by Thursday on the merger of their steel units.

50.   Of course, a political settlement, or progress towards it, would avert this.