11.   Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, compounded that concern by saying on Thursday that the global financial crisis appears to have passed.

12.   Alan Greenspan hinted that the central bank might ease interest rates to protect the U.S. economy from the effects of a global financial crisis.

13.   But the global financial crisis is beginning to erode this achievement.

14.   But the hold-up in IMF funding threatents to undermine the credibility of US finance officials trying to find a solution to the global financial crisis.

15.   But their speeches also underscored major rifts between rich and poor nations, and between the United States and Europe, over strategies to head off global environmental crises.

16.   But with the global financial crisis spawning talk of the next recession, much of what an expansion is supposed to achieve remains undone.

17.   Clinton decision ends a lengthy diplomatic contest over who would lead the institution that battles global financial crises.

18.   Computer climate modeling is still very primitive, but the weight of evidence is against the existence of a global warming crisis.

19.   Consider the moment when Bush was asked how he would respond to another sudden global financial crisis.

20.   During the global financial crisis over the last two years, the fact that the United States kept its markets open, bolstered Asia and the world.