1.   As if relations could get much more strained after the recent surveillance plane controversy.

2.   - Convinced that race relations are getting better.

3.   Human relations in space get short shrift at NASA.

4.   In defiance of reality, we are told that race relations are getting better and better in the United States.

5.   Next year, cozy labor relations could get bumpy when the pilots expect to see the lucrative contracts recently won by United and Delta pilots.

6.   The union, whose membership is about half African-American, denied this, and relations got worse.

7.   There is every reason, therefore, to expect that U.S.-Mexican relations will get even better in the coming years.

8.   Bosnian Serbs also threatened to shoot down any U.N. helicopters that fly over Serb-held territory and their leader said relations would likely get worse.

9.   Icy relations got a further chill with the defection by two people from the North Korean Embassy in Zambia, including the wife of a high-ranking diplomat.

10.   Icy relations got a further chill with the defection this week by two people from the North Korean Embassy in Zambia, including the wife of a high-ranking diplomat.