21.  Foreign investors, especially American ones, got calm reassurances that China is still open for business.

22.  For example, Chinese companies could decide to choose a European vendor over an American one.

23.  Germany would happily see Hussein out of the way, but not thanks to a military strike, let alone a unilateral American one.

24.  He allows that the communities he has studied, including the American one where he lives, are poor and want to be less so.

25.  He spoke, however, about the Russian economy, not the American one.

26.  His thesis that the French Revolution was a result of the American one made him well known but hardly beloved in France.

27.  His son will learn these traditions, he hopes, along with American ones.

28.  Hundreds of planes, mainly American ones, and dozens of ships are poised for operations that could start from bases in Italy and the Adriatic within days.

29.  If global investors had their way, Alan Greenspan would head a planetary central bank, not just an American one.

30.  Inspection teams, including the American one, have found little or no poppy.