11.  Among reasons listed by Perriss for those gains were accelerating economic growth in European nations like Germany and Italy and recoveries in some economically battered Asian markets.

12.  America can join European nations in trying to equalize the balance of postwar military might among Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia to discourage a new outbreak of fighting.

13.  America is not ready to discuss how slavery was so critical to the nation that the South once had a larger economy than any European nation except England.

14.  An oil embargo by Germany or other European nations would force refiners to secure alternative supplies, boosting prices.

15.  And despite the strife, European nations have moved toward increasingly uniform economic policies and performance.

16.  And if European nations try to tackle the crisis themselves they may find they lack the means to do the job.

17.  And Germany has been as shocked as other European nations at what seems an upsurge in pedophile sex crimes.

18.  And he said that the reconstruction of Yugoslavia after the conflict ends would be financed chiefly by European nations.

19.  And the European nations have far less stringent quotas than the nations that harvest tuna in the western Atlantic because stocks in the eastern Atlantic seem less endangered.

20.  And there is a danger, moreover, that the push for monetary union will drive European nations not closer together but farther apart.