21.   The new evidence may also lessen the need for more hospitals to develop angioplasty programs, at least on the basis of their usefulness in treating heart attacks.

22.   Through thrift and self-denial, they are savers and accumulators of capital, thus lessening the need for tax increases or benefit reductions for other Americans.

23.   To some extent, those gains may have been borrowed from the future because they lessen the need for additional production.

24.   Anwar had said Malaysians should adopt this new work culture, which is common in developed countries, as it will help to lessen the need for foreign workers.

25.   Bush responded to a question on the session before winning a major court victory that could lessen the need for legislative proceedings.

26.   Opponents of the legislation have cited the decline in filings as lessening the need for a bill.

27.   Reductions in steel imports lessen the need for tariffs on foreign steel, a lawyer for foreign steel companies said Thursday.

28.   Salazar, who is a member of the PEZA board, said this will lessen the need for domestic-oriented firms to locate to ecozones.

29.   That suggested to some economists that the economic situation could be improving, which would lessen the need for future interest rate cuts.

30.   The expansion of the insurance system should lessen the need for Congress to pass emergency assistance in coming years, USDA officials said.