71.   The move reflects the growing importance of Australia as a manufacturing and export base within the Asia Pacific region, it said.

72.   The move reflects the importance of the U.S. market.

73.   The moves reflected political tension a day before scheduled talks in the Serbian capital Belgrade between President Slobodan Milosevic and ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova.

74.   The move could reflect a shift in strategy and a move to cut costs by selling off auxiliary operations, the report said.

75.   The move reflected a steady trend that has seen governments and private investors forsake gold for other investments now that trade and investment barriers are dropping around the world.

76.   The move reflected deteriorating relations between Iraq and Mauritania, a Muslim country which supported Saddam during the Gulf War and which has always had a strong Baath movement.

77.   The move reflected Israeli sensitivity toward Jerusalem, the most explosive issue on the Israeli-Palestinian agenda.

78.   The move reflected U.S. dissatisfaction with market opening offers from the countries, they said, especially in Asia.

79.   The move reflects worsening relations between Beijing and Washington.

80.   He denied that the move reflected a strain in relations between Turkey and its Arab neighbor.