11.   Foreign investment is falling this year, principally because Asian neighbors hurt by the regional economic crisis have scaled back operations.

12.   Further slowing the expansion of the Internet user base in Latin America has been the regional economic crisis.

13.   He will also salute US Special Forces who are conducting training exercises for Senegalese soldiers involved in a regional crisis initiative.

14.   His reaction to the first regional crisis of his tenure has been to disappear from public view.

15.   If it continues, or worsens, it could set off a new regional crisis.

16.   It also has a longer-term interest in seeing Europe learn how to manage regional crises on its own.

17.   It has heightened the effects of the regional economic crisis in Indonesia, where bank closings, rising prices and unemployment are raising fears of social unrest.

18.   It came through the regional crisis with scarcely a scratch, mostly because China is less dependent on exports than its neighbors.

19.   Japan was suffering its worst slowdown in more than half a century, and China was the only Asian country to survive the regional economic crisis enhanced.

20.   Mbeki cried racism after the white opposition leader criticized his policies on AIDS and regional crises.