31.   The euro may encourage countries to compete for industries by offering tax breaks, much as the states do in America.

32.   The MARC-brokered agreement did not prohibit cities from offering tax breaks, but it encouraged leaders to share information about incentives awarded throughout the metropolitan area.

33.   The pact is intended to promote growth and control inflation by cutting government spending and offering tax breaks to businesses.

34.   The package also offers tax breaks to encourage investment in blighted areas and other incentives to create jobs in poorer neighborhoods.

35.   The trade minister, Sergio Amaral, says a new law offering tax breaks to information-technology firms is leading to higher investment.

36.   There is a complex tax system in China, although Shanghai offers special breaks, and businesses are bogged down by bureaucracy.

37.   Though some tax breaks will be offered, he said, the net effect on tax revenues will be neither positive nor negative.

38.   To help customers get back on their feet after the terrorist attacks, hundreds of companies offered price breaks, even though it meant taking a financial loss.

39.   To placate the nationalists, France has offered tax breaks and sent more subsidies to the island than to any other region.

40.   A junior coalition partner broke ranks with the leftist government Thursday and supported an opposition proposal to cut taxes on the poor and offer no break to the richest.