21.   Now the government wants to keep tabs on cash transactions.

22.   Officials said federal agents, aided by the Israeli authorities, had unearthed information indicating that Abu Marzook may have violated U.S. banking laws restricting large cash transactions.

23.   RULE EASED ON CASH REPORTS The Treasury Department said it was trimming its requirements for reporting large cash transactions to ease the paperwork load on banks.

24.   ServiceMaster declined to say how much it paid in the cash transaction.

25.   Separately, Otis said it acquired the Express Lift Co. from the General Electric Co. in a cash transaction.

26.   Some of those deals were represented as cash transactions but may have been stock deals.

27.   Tax lawyers also say economic reality provides the potential for singling out immigrants from countries where large cash transactions are more widespread than in the United States.

28.   The ASC said the structured cash transactions at the center of the investigation occurred immediately before the suspicious options trading.

29.   The cash transaction, scheduled to be final in August, represents part of the U.S. expansion by National Express into operating fleets from California to Connecticut.