91.   The name was changed further to normal trade relations, leaving opponents to espouse abnormal relations, a loser.

92.   The president must decide each year whether to renew normal trade relations with countries like China that do not grant their residents freedom of emigration.

93.   The tensions over Taiwan have complicated Clinton administration efforts to rally support for a bill before Congress that would grant China permanent normal trade relations.

94.   The U.S. Congress must grant China permanent normal trade status to clear the way for the World Trade Organization membership.

95.   The United States has normal trade relations with most countries.

96.   There are also those in Congress who think we can grant China permanent normal trade status and still address rights abuses through a joint congressional-presidential commission.

97.   They are deciding whether or not they will terminate the annual farce of voting to bestow normal trade relations on Beijing one year at a time.

98.   They urged their colleagues to consider the economic retaliation that China has often threatened in the event of a breakdown in normal trade relations.

99.   This is hardly the first time that conservatives in Congress have threatened to revoke normal trade relations with China.

100.   This year they fought hard, but ultimately unsuccessfully, to derail permanent normal trade relations with China.