1.   Local residents are protesting against plans to relax laws controlling pub opening hours.

2.   And, she said, helmet laws were being relaxed.

3.   Attorney General Ashcroft was preparing to ask Congress Monday to relax numerous laws on wiretapping and eavesdropping to make it easier to detect terrorist activity.

4.   But last year Congress debated relaxing the law to permit foreign ships to transport passengers between U.S. ports without a foreign stop.

5.   Pataki himself has talked about relaxing those laws.

6.   Relaxes antitrust laws to let doctors exchange information about prices when they are forming a health plan to serve Medicare patients.

7.   Relaxing the law would allow it to aid in counter-terrorism investigations.

8.   She presides over the International Artists Against Racism, a group that pressures European governments to relax laws against Third World refugees seeking asylum.

9.   Still, a sale to Packer depends on the government relaxing laws barring domestic media companies from owning newspapers and broadcast outlets in the same city.

10.   The government is also planning to relax the laws restricting mergers in the financial services industry.