31.   In return, tobacco companies would win protection from future lawsuits and restrictions on how strictly the government could control nicotine.

32.   Scrapping a national currency means a government can no longer print extra money to meet its budget, thus eliminating a major cause of inflation.

33.   The government can and should do something about this dismal situation.

34.   The second is the chilling attitude that the government can, and should, control when and how a man and wife can meet.

35.   The lira weakened further in the face of three no-confidence motions in the Italian parliament this week and speculation as to whether the Berlusconi government could survive.