1.   As a result, the government has offered individuals and companies different proposals to alleviate the burden of higher bank debts.

2.   Dole also pledged that the Senate will take up legislation to alleviate the burden of unfunded federal mandates on the states.

3.   But Tung had no new initiatives to present to legislators who asked whether the government had any plans to alleviate the burdens on Hong Kong people.

4.   On Thursday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed support for ways to alleviate burdens on the Iraqi people.

5.   On Thursday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed support for ways to alleviate burdens on the Iraqi people.

6.   The budget is expected to include more subsidies to alleviate the burden of economic hardship on millions of poor people in Indonesia.

7.   The new system is designed to prevent abuse of medical resources and alleviate the burden of heavy medical bills.

8.   Therefore, he said, the Ministry would look into other ways to help farmers such as giving special incentives and free fertiliser to alleviate their burden.

9.   To alleviate this burden, the government has introduced a temporary program under which credit will be provided to small-scale enterprises through the state banks at subsidized interest rates.

10.   - the creation of supplementary French pension funds to alleviate the burden of state-financed disbursements.