21.   His conciliatory comments have soothed the fears of investors nervous he would roll back free market economic policies.

22.   International officials have sought to soothe their fears and encouraged highly publicized meetings between government and Serb officials to allay Serb concerns.

23.   It took a meeting between Hong Kong chief executive Tung Chee-hwa and Singapore Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong last week to soothe fears.

24.   NATO Secretary General Javier Solana on Friday tried to soothe fears that Romania would be excluded from the first batch of countries to join the Western military alliance.

25.   Stocks shot to new highs for the third time this week Friday, as a report of weak durable-goods orders soothed fears of higher interest rates.

26.   The company said it spent millions on two environmental impact assessment studies, and soothed fears among residents with a series of public hearings about the project.

27.   The move is designed to soothe Gagauz fears that Moldovan nationalists will seek to reunite with neighboring Romania and is part of policy of guaranteeing rights to minority groups.

28.   The settlement by the WGA has soothed fears of labor unrest that threatened earlier this year to disrupt the movie and TV industry.

29.   The settlement by the Writers Guild of America has soothed fears of labor unrest that threatened earlier this year to disrupt the movie and TV industry.

30.   Trying to soothe fears of an overnight change, Van den Broek said,