1.   Certainly some young executives are not convinced that running a company through the last downturn would make their job any easier today.

2.   Finely calibrated machines make it easier today for people with impaired health to weight train without injury.

3.   Hazel and Robert Landrum are breathing easier today, their mission nearly accomplished.

4.   The ability to find evidence of fraud is much easier today than it used to be.

5.   The moderate Republicans in the House who agreed to the deal were breathing easier today after all the pressure they faced from their leaders on Wednesday.

6.   Crude palm oil futures took a downturn to close easier today as the Pakistan government suspended its foreign exchange transaction, a dealer said.