1.   And it calls for the admission to NATO of four formerly communist countries in Central Europe -- Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary.

2.   As president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Koehler oversees an institution that provides loans to the formerly communist nations of central Europe.

3.   At some point, she started to express dissatisfaction with my Polish accent and the fact that I came from a formerly Communist country.

4.   A quick expansion eastward to embrace formerly communist Mitteleuropa?

5.   But all over the formerly Communist region, financially strapped governments have neglected health care and now face what experts are calling an unprecedented crisis.

6.   But as in Russia and other formerly Communist lands, millions of workers and farmers were left adrift, without the security they had enjoyed under communism.

7.   But its daily chronicle of the difficulties of a west German woman in adapting to the formerly Communist east does bring the problems of German unity down to basics.

8.   Disillusionment with the difficulty of transformation has also led recently to comebacks for formerly communist parties in both Poland and Hungary, now called socialists.

9.   Five formerly Communist countries and Cyprus are on the short list to join the European Union, and talks with five other European states are also under way.

10.   For Germans in the formerly Communist East, the mark represented unification, a ticket to prosperity and full membership in the West.