21.   Disclosure of expenditures lessens the risk that individuals will spend money to support a candidate as a quid pro quo for special treatment after the candidate is in office.

22.   He has lessened the risk of his holdings to rising rates by purchasing shorter term securities, which would fall less in price.

23.   Hermens also said that the fact that Yegorova has already been tested in Edmonton for EPO by the IAAF lessens the risk that she would have a competitive advantage.

24.   If the pilot has some control, he can potentially lessen the risks in a water crash by aiming the plane along the waves instead of nosing into them.

25.   Investors can use options to lessen the risks of owning stocks.

26.   Investors who thought they could lessen their risk by diversifying overseas found little solace last quarter in international equity funds, many of which underperformed their domestic counterparts.

27.   It is the position of Cowboys management that no studies have proved conclusively that grass lessens the risk of injury.

28.   Many advisers recommend dollar-cost averaging because it lessens risk.

29.   Meanwhile, some public relations firms say they want the press release wires to institute uniform security standards to lessen the risk of another hoax.

30.   Modern frost control methods, some of them perfected in California, have lessened the risks and encouraged expansion of the vineyards.