1.   The Government wants to reduce penalties for honest business failures while increasing the maximum penalties on dishonest bankrupts.

2.   As anyone who has had a high school civics class can recall, the Gunderson case is not how honest business is done in America.

3.   Congressional leaders insist they only want to end excessive regulations that hamstring honest businesses and that they will leave basic protections for public health and safety intact.

4.   It would give every honest business on the Internet an incentive to practice strict privacy controls.

5.   Safeguarding public health is not some plot hatched by overzealous socialists to hamstring honest businesses.

6.   They say he was drawn into a bribery scheme by a system that forces honest business people to pay off government officials to win government contracts.

7.   Yet when one street person claims to have been a waitress in an honest business, the owners have to jump through hoops.

8.   And it is natural that entrepreneurs will realise the potential to form honest businesses to meet consumer needs.

9.   China said Saturday that plans by the bank to condition aid on clean government and honest business practices were an interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.

10.   Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Tuesday that more honest business accounting was likely to be a lasting benefit from the Enron collapse.