| Until the start of the millenium China, the world's biggest producer of many commodities, was largely self-sufficient or even a modest exporter. |
| The transition to the new millenium may result in loss of essential utilities to some member housing co-operatives. |
| Indeed, half a millenium ago Europe might justly have been considered a laggard. |
| The key is to reinvest debt repayments in indebted nations to meet those millenium goals for hunger and disease. |
| Over the course of a millenium the resulting change is unimaginably significant. |
| For the past 10 years, Shanghai officials have spent billions on what rightly is a contender for the first mega-city of the new millenium. |
