11.   But civil unrest along the pipeline route complicates the task of raising investment to build it.

12.   But it also complicates the task of managing growth.

13.   But one factor that will continue to complicate that task is the increasing difficulty of pinning down the notion of what constitutes a stable general price level.

14.   But presidential polls in Russia and the United States and a national election in India could complicate that task.

15.   But the problems of the post-communist world have complicated its task.

16.   But their task has been complicated by what many perceive as U.S. unilateralism and finger-in-the-eye confrontation in place of diplomacy.

17.   Careless increases in the hard-money limits would complicate his task.

18.   Complicating the task of countering the manipulation, officials said, it appears that the tactic did not violate any specific election rules, only their general spirit.

19.   Complicating the task for Lucent workers, the economy has clearly slowed, even if the employment statistics do not yet reflect the change.

20.   Complicating the task is the Soviet system of accounting for nuclear materials, which relied largely on records of the production of nuclear materials instead of sophisticated scientific measurements.