41.  The Northern Alliance has been making efforts to convince the United States and coalition forces that it is more than a regional group clinging to territory in northern Afghanistan.

42.  The number of hikers is growing, regional hiking groups say, but only a small percentage of those who hike on the mountain are killed or injured.

43.  The regional groups provide money to the national organizations and support their advertising.

44.  The regional manufacturing group also said fewer managers faced rising raw materials costs.

45.  The other day, German banks and other financial institutions joined a growing number of employer and regional groups back-pedaling on their insistence on cutting sick pay.

46.  The regional dairy group was created several years ago by Congress and directly affects New England states.

47.  The regional group currently is prohibited from competing with Roadway Express because of a Teamsters union labor agreement, he said.

48.  The Western Systems Coordinating Council is a regional group of electric companies and public power agencies.

49.  They did today, under the aegis of another regional group, the Caribbean Community.

50.  Under the essentially Victorian world view that prevailed when U.N. regions were established half a century ago, Israel should be part of the Asian regional group.