31.   Bush was also renewing his commitment on an issue dear to the high-technology industry, pledging to relax certain regulations on exporting powerful computers and software.

32.   But Chien Ming-lung, an Agriculture Council official, said the snake population was still too low to relax the regulations.

33.   California Gov. Gray Davis denied that environmental rules hinder energy production but said he would ask President Bush if the need should arise to relax regulations.

34.   Davis, backed by the California Air Resources Board, said the only alternative to relaxing the regulations would have been to run dirtier diesel-fired generating plants.

35.   He also said CGC has also relaxed certain regulations to applicants who want to obtain loans under the Seff scheme.

36.   India has relaxed most regulations since it began free-market reforms four years ago, but the telecommunication sector has been the slowest to change.

37.   Li made it clear there were no plans to relax regulations on contracts for foreign-Chinese joint ventures.

38.   Many Asian governments, even South Korea and Japan, have agreed to relax aviation regulations and move closer to open-skies policies.

39.   One assumes also that Wexler has not read an announcement by Israeli Trade and Industry Minister Natan Sharansky that Israel would relax regulations of trade with Indonesia and Malaysia.

40.   Regulations will be relaxed for companies involved in infrastructure, basic industry and privatization projects, the SET said.