1.   A new commercial bank may increase worries that the industry is getting crowded, leading banks to relax credit standards to keep market share as competition heightens.

2.   After working my way through so many tarts, my spirit may have weakened but I had not relaxed my standards.

3.   But the agency is reluctant to relax its standards too much.

4.   Card issuers did relax credit standards to get more of the cards into circulation, analysts say.

5.   City officials said the department did not plan to relax the standards.

6.   For example, Struhs plans to relax pollution standards for factories that recycle fluorescent light bulbs and power plants that convert landfill gases into energy.

7.   Gray acknowledged that Washington had relaxed its standard for determining which Haitians would be eligible for placement in a safe haven.

8.   He is considering rule changes that would relax standards on the power plant emissions that contribute to the very acid rain that threatens the lakes of the Adirondacks.

9.   In Japan, too, policy makers are trying to relax standards.

10.   In its attempt to include current artists, it relaxes its standards.