11.   While Shadwick knows that the board will be under a microscope, he hopes the community will help to lessen tension.

12.   Assistant Warden Ignacio Morales endorses prison workshops because they keep inmates busy and lessen tension.

13.   Chirac said Saturday that India and Pakistan should end nuclear tests and work to lessen tensions that the blasts have produced in the region.

14.   Freeing the hostage seemed to lessen tensions somewhat.

15.   He also said more money would be channeled to poorer Chinese and less-developed western China to lessen social tensions.

16.   He then called Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh on Friday from Moscow in another effort to lessen tensions.

17.   International envoys renewed efforts Thursday to find a political settlement for Kosovo after the release of eight army soldiers lessened tensions in the separatist Serbian province.

18.   Many of those jailed have been released in recent months in an apparent sign the ruling clerics are seeking to lessen political tensions.

19.   Many have been released from jail in recent months in an apparent move by the ruling clerics to lessen political tensions.

20.   Marovic said the present Serbian leadership and Milosevic have failed to do anything to lessen tension in Kosovo over the past eight years.