Vacancies in hotels have increased, but industry analysts say that reflects new construction rather than recessionary forces.

Floating exchange rates are considered more efficient, because the market will automatically correct the rate to reflect inflation and other economic forces.

Environmental Influences The aura may also reflect outside forces, positive and negative, that affect us.

To a limited extent, Mr. Dole's inability to use these issues reflects forces beyond his control.

But, at least in Texas, the sharp spikes in insurance prices reflect forces operating outside the tort system.

The Tokyo market, everyone said, did not reflect underlying economic forces so much as it served specific needs.

"Part of the so-called credit crunch problem reflects deep-seated economic forces which government policy can only tangentially affect," he said.

What is sometimes overlooked is that these differences are not just personal idiosyncrasies, but reflect powerful forces in the population.

Rapid increases in volatility reflect forces both within the stock market and outside of it.

Unhappily, it reflects powerful centrifugal forces that continue to tear at Russia's efforts to create a democracy.