91.   State governments have long offered tax breaks and other favors to corporations that threaten to leave or promise to bring new jobs.

92.   Susana Sotomayor used to be a nurse, until the government offered her a small sum to quit her job.

93.   Telecommunications industry representatives told a congressional panel the government was not offering enough subsidies to pay for modifying digital equipment to permit wiretapping.

94.   The amounts are not large, but they are more than Salvadoran government has offered, residents say.

95.   That was repeated during mediation efforts by a federal judge early this year, though the government ultimately offered terms short of a breakup.

96.   The Argentine government cannot offer such assurances, Dornbusch said.

97.   The Brazilian government has offered some insurance relief to carriers there and Peru is covering insurance liability for its airports.

98.   The bus episode came after a day when small groups of people had gathered outside the embassy after hearing rumors that the Mexican government was offering asylum.

99.   The Canadian government offered to pay him to remain in exile but Metis friends persuaded him to return to the Canadian prairie.

100.   The Canadian government should offer financial assistance to help offset training costs and should put pressure on Air Canada to buy from Boeing, he said.