21.   The step could ease tensions in the crisis.

22.   To encourage new businesses, the government promised to reform corporate tax laws and propose new steps to ease access to venture capital.

23.   With the aim of encouraging new businesses, the government promised to reform corporate tax laws and propose new steps to ease access to venture capital.

24.   Albright said last month that the United Nations Security Council was considering taking steps to ease the worsening humanitarian situation in Somalia.

25.   Despite the cruelty of the deportations, Bosnian Serbs have taken two steps to ease the situation, according to Kris Janowski of the UNHCR in Zagreb.

26.   Deve Gowda, who assumed office last Saturday, has already promised that he would take steps to ease tension with Pakistan.

27.   The UN Security Council is considering taking steps to ease the worsening humanitarian situation in Somalia, the Council presidency said Wednesday.

28.   Netanyahu also told the secretary of state that he had taken steps to ease the closure on the two West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Jenin, Burns said.

29.   Netanyahu also told the secretary of state that he had taken steps to ease the closure on the two West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Jenin, he added.

30.   Powell also urged Israel to take steps to ease its blockade of the Palestinian territories.