1.   One button, my grandmother used to say, made things easier when you were nursing babies.

2.   But the Nets could have made things much easier on themselves Sunday night.

3.   But while the ruling in the government case makes things easier for private antitrust plaintiffs, it by no means insures that they will win in court.

4.   But, he said, companies can make things easier on themselves by taking a lenient attitude toward employees seeking leave.

5.   I reckoned the only things easier were spitting, scratching and brushing off home plate.

6.   Once Williams realized that people were counting on him, it made things a lot easier, he said.

7.   That, as history shows, can be a much easier thing to say than to do.

8.   The president could have made things easier in this campaign season by coming clean months ago, Mrs. Boxer said.

9.   There have been opportunities to make things easier on themselves, but then again, they are so accustomed to the toughest of roads that nothing fazes them anymore.

10.   There are few things easier to find than attacks on Oliver Stone.