51.   Cotton and rice growers dropped their opposition to greater planting flexibility.

52.   Congress moved Wednesday to give President Clinton greater flexibility in deciding whether to impose sanctions against the Pakistani military a day after the overthrow of the elected government there.

53.   Congressional Republicans want to loosen or sever strings on federal education dollars so that state and local governments can have greater flexibility in spending them.

54.   During their talks, Shapiro and Sakakibara reviewed topics including the U.S. request for Japan to allow greater flexibility in the pricing of policies.

55.   Employers like the lower expense and greater flexibility of contracting for workers as needed rather than bulking up payrolls.

56.   Fay said the plan would give the hospital greater flexibility.

57.   For example, the commissioner will have greater flexibility to transfer executives and to offer qualified potential employees higher salaries.

58.   For example, the commissioner will have greater flexibility to transfer executives, to hire new workers, and to offer qualified potential employees higher salaries.

59.   For short-term traders, they offer greater flexibility than mutual funds because they trade as stocks.

60.   German Economics Minister Guenter Rexrodt welcomed the agreement and called for greater flexibility to create jobs.