1.  Pregnancy, however, is a relatively brief and dramatic bodily change, succeeded by reversion to something like the former state.

2.  The former communist states began opening up their Markets to foreign investment.

3.  The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state.

4.  Sharp falls in both exports and imports were estimated for eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union states.

5.  Rutskoi was seen as a champion of Russian minorities in former Soviet states.

6.  Few such churches remain in anything like their former state.

7.  An MP has called on the Government and charities not to send aid to refugees in the former Yugoslavian state of Bosnia.

8.  Now they have asked the Government of the newly independent former Soviet state to intervene.

9.  Also in Michigan, former state Sen. David Jaye failed in his bid to regain his seat.

10.  Among them was former state Sen. Ralph David Abernathy III, son of the late civil rights leader.