1.   As they wait in the hot sun, gleaming air-conditioned cars sweep past in the opposite direction.

2.   Not many easterners can afford to splurge in the gleaming new car dealerships and shopping malls that are outward signs of progress.

3.   The man reaches for another gleaming plastic car.

4.   Top officials drive in gleaming new imported cars past stinking Luanda shantytowns, where thousands of jobless people loiter at roadside.

5.   After four years of bold reforms in the Philippines, gleaming new cars and giant shopping malls abound as testimony to growing affluence.