1.   Exercise is the ideal way to relieve tension after a hard day.

2.   Asian stocks have also benefitted recently from a relaxation in tensions after elections in Taiwan and hopes the Japanese economy will pull out of a slump.

3.   Cooking can be rigorous exercise, a good release of the tensions after the death of someone special.

4.   Roselle Wilson, vice president for student affairs, said university officials became concerned about growing tension after the suspension of the basketball game Tuesday.

5.   Tara Modlin said there were tensions after an unsuccessful competitive season capped by a last-minute change of coach and program.

6.   The trip is intended to reduce tensions after an internationally brokered truce between the government and rebels failed to stop the bloodshed.

7.   President Alberto Fujimori met with his top generals on Saturday to find a way to defuse mounting border tensions after Peru charged that Ecuadorean troops had infiltrated its territory.

8.   British Prime Minister Tony Blair visited Pakistan on Monday, hoping to ease tensions after a stop in the Indian capital on Sunday.

9.   But plans for further expanding ties were put on hold amid rising Arab-Israeli tensions after the election last May of hard-line Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

10.   Chinese President Jiang Zemin left Thursday for India for another effort to ease tensions after reaching agreement in the Philippines to temporarily set aside a territorial dispute.