51.   Many analysts hope that as the military threat from Kurdish separatists subsides, the government will further ease its restrictions on Kurdish cultural activities.

52.   Obasanjo on Wednesday repeated his call for a coalition government to ease the crisis in Zimbabwe.

53.   Prime minister says French government may ease visa restrictions for Algerians.

54.   Pressured by donor countries, the government on Friday eased its plan to take farmland from whites and give it to landless blacks.

55.   President Vladimir Putin promised Thursday that his government would ease currency controls and begin moves toward economic liberalization.

56.   Since the U.S. government eased travel restrictions last year, tens of thousands have flown home to visit.

57.   That would require the federal government to ease regulations on how Medicaid is administered by states.

58.   The government later eased its stance and agreed to negotiate a payment plan with Gazprom.

59.   The government must ease regulations, change tax laws and encourage technological advances to help revive the economy, it said.

60.   The federal government Wednesday eased tough new rules regulating foreign nannies.