Our future success as an economic dynamo with a large and vibrant middle class depends on it.

The Philippines of today is an emerging economic dynamo.

Taiwan has blossomed into one of Asia's economic dynamos and one of the world's dominant trading nations.

A side effect of turning China into an economic dynamo, the program reports, has been unemployment for 100 million peasants.

Like the other two megastates, California is behaving increasingly like a nation, an economic dynamo independent of the United States.

"The vegetable market, which is the city's economic dynamo, remains shut," he said.

"I have no regrets," he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, the futuristic capital of a nation that during his 13 years in office has been transformed into an economic dynamo.

Mr. Ramos tells the success story to anyone who will listen: How a country with a history of poverty, corruption, civil rebellion, foreign indebtedness and tax evasion is emerging as an economic dynamo.

Since Germany is Europe's economic dynamo, moreover, the outcome of the clash between the authorities and the workers, who have become used to a broad range of benefits and automatic pay increases, could influence events well beyond Germany's frontiers.

He reached out both to long-estranged socialist neighbors and the capitalist economic dynamos that are the United States' allies, trying to enlist their help with Soviet economic restructuring and development in the Soviet Far East.