91.   As for shopping for a partner in Asia, Schweitzer says the idea was born during the Asian economic crisis.

92.   As a result, economists say, Singapore could emerge from the Asian economic crisis in better shape than the normally resilient Hong Kong.

93.   As Russia struggles in its current economic crisis, Americans may well pay more.

94.   As the Asian economic crisis has spread to engulf Russia and to threaten Latin America all talk of a Fed rate increase has disappeared.

95.   As the case opened last week, stock prices slumped and the baht headed toward its weakest value against the dollar since the depths of the economic crisis.

96.   As the economic crisis continues, so does the wave of violence.

97.   As the rest of Asia reels from currency collapses and economic crises, Taiwan Inc. is opening its checkbook.

98.   Asian nations, immersed in their own economic crises, can no longer afford to buy as much food as they did before from the United States.

99.   As with the economic crisis, the government response to the ecological disaster has been ineffectual and hampered by corruption.

100.   Asia accounts for about one-quarter of all personal computer sales, so the economic crisis there has hit technology companies particularly hard.