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                                        | Top Story ISO 9000's Popularity Soars
 Australia, the United States, China, Germany, Japan and the 
                                            United Kingdom have shown the greatest growth in ISO 9000 registrations, according to the ninth cycle of "The ISO Survey of ISO 9000 and 14000 Certificates." Total ISO 9000 registrations worldwide now 
                                            number more than 343,000. Further proof of ISO 9000's rising popularity contained in the document, this year available on CD-ROM for the first time, are reports of the first registrations in 
                                            Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Dominica, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Korea, Madagascar and Samoa.
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