41.   In the Senate the rules ordinarily make it easy for one senator to delay anything.

42.   Increasingly strict federal safety rules are making nuclear plants more expensive to operate at a time when utilities need to cut costs to prepare for deregulation, he said.

43.   Indeed, the new rules make planning a drinking party a whole lot harder.

44.   Instead, it is because accounting rules make it easier for banks to hide their mistakes.

45.   It would have been even cheaper had Gore been able to use the video camera already in his personal possession, but campaign finance rules made that too difficult.

46.   La Russa is proving the designated-hitter rule does not make the man, or the manager.

47.   Local securities officials confirmed the new rules will make Beijing authorities solely responsible for approving share sales.

48.   Looser state campaign finance rules make it easier to challenge a governor, they say, while federal rules make incumbent members of Congress much more formidable.

49.   Many Latin American governments, especially minority ones, have found that democratic rules sometimes make it hard to implement reform, especially where old-fashioned politics still predominate.

50.   Looser Federal Reserve rules have made it easier for banks to buy securities firms.