1.   An easier path is found in mutual funds specializing in convertibles.

2.   An easier path, Watts suggested, is the France Growth Fund, the only closed-end country fund exclusively covering French stocks.

3.   And even detractors acknowledge that Brown could have chosen an easier path to return to national politics than managing this long-troubled city east of San Francisco.

4.   And hopefully tomorrow, the Mariners can take an easier path to victory.

5.   Arafat expected an easier path toward statehood when Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was elected in May, but he has found it even more difficult.

6.   But it also provided an easier path for great numbers of students who preferred not to take the Regents courses and exams.

7.   For now, many companies are taking the easier path of marketing foods as dietary supplements.

8.   Gallagher and others may soon find an easier path to a smoother flight.

9.   Instead, he is like water running downhill, always shifting, moving, looking for an opening and an easier path.

10.   Merton walked an easier path, but only because he was a friend of the editor of the new Bell Journal of Economics.