41.  Changing musical tastes and economic forces helped bring about an end to the big-band era.

42.  Contrary to expectation, the figure of the dinosaur indirectly discloses the changing economic forces that have shaped modern society and culture.

43.  Cooper expects the dollar-mark misalignment to solve itself since there are no fundamental economic forces propping up the German currency.

44.  Complicating matters here are economic forces that are pushing even more people into homelessness.

45.  Economic forces ravaging Asia have created a vast land of business opportunity.

46.  Economic forces are reshaping the magazine industry in a march toward consolidation that is expected to intensify as the year goes on.

47.  DOUBTS ABOUT JAPAN PERSIST Japan is the one economic force in Asia powerful enough to pull the region out of its economic crisis.

48.  Economic forces have reduced Taiwan strait tensions.

49.  Economic forces were very important.

50.  Even Japan, the dominant if ailing economic force in Asia, has grumbled about fund policies in the region and sought easier conditions for Indonesia.