41.   Ashcroft thinks he can best serve Missourians by pursuing a balancing budget amendment, reducing the size of government and providing tax relief for families.

42.   At the same time, the United Nations sharply reduced the size of its staff in Dili, the capital of East Timor.

43.   Bariatric surgery involves reducing the size of the stomach.

44.   Bargainers on both sides had hoped the forecast would make it easier for the two sides to agree by reducing the size of cutbacks needed.

45.   Bending the wrists in any direction can reduce the size of the tunnel and pack the tendons and nerves closer together, creating more trauma.

46.   Beyond reducing classroom sizes with money from unspecified sources, however, their plans are unclear.

47.   Both auction houses are also reducing the size of many of their regional offices.

48.   A drought last year forced ranchers to slaughter heifers, reducing the size of the herd that will come to market beginning in October.

49.   Advocates of privatizing the power marketing administrations believe that such a move would reduce the size of government and would reduce the deficit.

50.   Actually, many censors skipped town more than a decade ago, as the broadcast networks drastically reduced the size of their internal standards and practices departments.