The surge in jobs reflects a remarkable confluence of positive and self-reinforcing economic forces.

The ninth month sees a remarkable confluence of happy circumstances around the world.

There was a remarkable confluence of life, death and politics, events that are indeed becoming steady these days.

It could be that Mr. Bush is still adjusting to a remarkable confluence of events in which he heard the networks declare him the winner election night, only to find the prize yanked from him.

"Com ..." A remarkable confluence of percussions and tonalities.

Under this remarkable confluence of pressures, serial traumas, provocations, and incompossible yearnings, Tony Donuts Junior accomplished something painful and for him almost unprecedented.

A remarkable confluence of personalities and economic forces bids fair to break the logjam along the Rio Grande.

"Most recently, the economy has demonstrated a remarkable confluence of robust growth, high resource utilization and damped inflation," Mr. Greenspan said in a text of the speech that was released by the Fed.

Will the PT Cruiser be the last testament to a remarkable confluence of the right people in the right company at the right time?

It was the second time in a week that a remarkable confluence of luck, perseverance and fingerprints had led the police to believe that they had cracked a seemingly baffling case.