31.   Cotton fell as the weekend rain reached West Texas, easing drought conditions that delayed planting and threatened to reduce production.

32.   Crop-eradication campaigns occasionally reduce production in one country, but new suppliers pop up elsewhere.

33.   Desmopressin acetate, or DDAVP, is a manmade compound very similar to a naturally occurring hormone that enables the kidney to reabsorb water, thereby reducing urine production.

34.   Economists say factories reduced production in March because inventories are piling up.

35.   Even so, lumber mills have yet to reduce their production, hoping to capture profits from rising pulp and paper prices.

36.   Every time U.S. efforts have reduced production in one place, it has increased elsewhere.

37.   Figs require little or no pruning, since pruning often reduces fruit production.

38.   Gasoline prices rose as a spate of refinery shutdowns threatens to reduce production.

39.   Gasoline surged after Exxon Corp. shut part of a Texas refinery, reducing production at a time of strong demand and low inventories.

40.   General Motors Corp., meanwhile, is under pressure to reduce production, industry reports said.