21.   The Antelope Valley is particularly hard hit, with major reductions to High Desert Hospital in Palmdale.

22.   The benefit is a major reduction in mortality, improved quality of life, less pain and more energy.

23.   The best-known fight of the species act, over whether to save the Northern Spotted Owl, has led to major reductions in logging on public land.

24.   The new budget, for example, locks Congress into a major reduction of growth in Medicare, the subsidized health-insurance plan for the elderly.

25.   The players, however, avoided major reductions in their overall cut of league revenues.

26.   There have been major reductions in emissions of chemicals not specifically selected for the project.

27.   TNRCC studies indicate that meeting the ozone standard will require major reductions in one key group of pollutants, nitrogen oxides, by all types of emission sources.

28.   While the oil markets reacted skeptically, the oil ministers did all they could to make this major reduction seem like routine business.

29.   Analysts said any major reduction in a shareholding immediately prior to a results announcement is highly unusual.

30.   At the same time the two sides are committed to major reductions in the arsenals of strategic offensive nuclear weapons.