41.   But the report said embryonic stem cells offered certain advantages, including greater flexibility and the ability to proliferate indefinitely in the lab.

42.   But they also said he may hint at a willingness by the United States to allow greater flexibility in the talks sponsored by the commission.

43.   By setting up holding companies, Japanese financial companies are expected to gain greater flexibility in entering new businesses, reorganizing units and reducing workers.

44.   By then, Ashcroft and Rumsfeld were backing off their insistence on the death penalty, and Bellows had greater flexibility.

45.   Central bank officials believe the new bands will give them greater flexibility to lower interest rates, which have been kept high to fight inflation.

46.   Clinton has also backed greater flexibility in programs and pushed for free-trade policies, Glickman said.

47.   Concern arose that greater pricing flexibility from carmakers outside the U.S. would crimp U.S. margins.

48.   Conservatives backed down on another fight by withdrawing an amendment that would have given greater flexibility to states in how they could spend federal education money.

49.   Cotton and rice growers dropped their opposition to greater planting flexibility but won the right to keep lucrative subsidies called marketing loans, which promote exports.

50.   Counties would have greater flexibility to choose more effective and cost-efficient programs than under the current system, they said.