Today, salaries can beget fortunes, as deregulation and globalization have increased the opportunities for profits and pay in corporate America.

This has actually happened, and globalization has increased this aberration, because it has actually reduced the power of individual states to determine their destiny.

China's experience supports the assertion that globalization greatly increases wealth for poor countries.

Others are considered to be dying out because government centralization and globalization are increasing the prevalence of English and other major languages.

Cultural globalization has increased cross-cultural contacts but may be accompanied by a decrease in the uniqueness of once-isolated communities.

Also, globalization has increased the interdependency of political, personal, cultural and economic factors.

"It's fair to say globalization will increase these types of patterns around the world," said Dan Lefkovitz, a Morningstar fund analyst.

The globalization of the textile industry has increased the need for effective color communication.

Although the problem has been recognized for some time, women's groups say they are pushing the debate now since globalization is increasing the number of such marriages.

Though no snakeheads have been found beyond the pond, he said, alien species have caused increasing habitat chaos as globalization has increased their portability.