A tsunami alert was waived over all countries of the Pacific Rim.

Europe is falling behind, particularly in comparison with Japan and other countries of the Pacific Rim.

Some political leaders in the West say the region's future lies in exploiting its proximity to the countries of the Pacific Rim.

Japan is New Zealand's largest export market, with stock also being supplied to other countries of the Pacific Rim, including Australia.

Soviet officials, mindful of the model of Japan and other prosperous countries of the Pacific rim, see increased trade as critical to growth in the domestic economy.

The countries of the Pacific Rim are represented particularly well, and so do students from Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa.

The report concludes: "Over the longer term, the rapidly expanding countries of the Pacific Rim will provide Canada with its best hope for new markets and sustained growth."

Simon's S.&L.'s can therefore become sources of venture capital, ideally positioned to participate in the great boom he foresees in the countries of the Pacific Rim.

Carter worked to increase knowledge and dialogue with the countries of the Pacific Rim, but he also promoted interests and groups which critics charged were communist fronts or communist dominated.

This is already well under way as American manufacturing industry and the economy generally concede to the superior economic performance of other nations, principally Japan, Germany and the countries of the Pacific Rim."

When President Clinton and the leaders of the major countries of the Pacific Rim arrive here this week, they will find themselves in a land where two worlds an ocean apart are forming a hybrid society.

But in recent years attention has turned the other way, and now the Bush Administration is considering the kinds of institutional links with the countries of the Pacific Rim that have long characterized trans-Atlantic cooperation.

In contrast, the report says: "The developing countries of the Pacific Rim are on the verge of unprecedented consumer and construction booms, which will present enormous opportunities for Canadian exporters of both goods and services."

And their numbers are growing as Los Angeles emerges as the nation's second financial and information capital after New York, serving as a relay point between the East Coast and the economically surging countries of the Pacific Rim.

President Bush, accompanied by 21 American business executives, has billed his trip to Japan and other countries of the Pacific Rim as a move to create American jobs by opening markets and selling more American goods abroad.

There could also have been more speculation on the likely symbiosis between Asia's Confucian tradition on the one side and America's technology and innovation on the other, a relationship that will certainly link the countries of the Pacific rim for decades to come.

"It is quite obvious that the countries of the Pacific Rim want to diversify their energy sources," Galina N. Pavlova, the Sakhalin regional government's oil and gas director, said in her office, littered with trinkets from visiting energy company delegations.

In a sense, the end of the cold war provides the kind of opportunity for world economic growth last seen at the end of World War II with the modernization of Europe, Japan and the newly industrialized countries of the Pacific rim.

With piracy increasingly under control in the countries of the Pacific rim, as a result of pressure from the West and as they themselves become information product originators, and with China the last major country to implement a copyright law, copyright has conquered Asia.

But lately the larger notions of generational succession, the subversive nature of English and the need to preserve Asian values have dominated, especially as Japan and other countries of the Pacific Rim have taken off economically while the West appears to be in comparative decline.

China, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and even several of the less economically privileged countries of the Pacific Rim (including Vietnam, Thailand and the Philippines) have all seen a dramatic increase in the number of their films selected for westward export.