51.   The legislation would give the three Hong Kong Trade and Economic Offices a status similar to that of other international organizations, including the World Bank.

52.   The only major question now is whether the legislation will give the state broad power to renegotiate contracts with municipal unions.

53.   The new federal welfare reform legislation gives blatant permission for states to treat them differently from U.S. citizens.

54.   The new legislation would give the Treasury Department the right to take any number of steps, along a progressive scale, to fight laundering.

55.   The original legislation gave the oversight board exclusive power to hire and fire the IRS commissioner, but that was changed in the compromise version unveiled Tuesday.

56.   The proposed legislation would also give the towns the right to acquire the land under eminent domain.

57.   The tobacco companies want the predictability that legislation would give them about how much money they will have to spend to settle legal claims in the years ahead.

58.   The U.S. House sent President Bill Clinton historic legislation giving the president power, for the first time, to strike individual items out of tax and spending bills.

59.   The tactic brought complaints from Republicans that the legislation would give Moscow too much control over U.S. military policy.

60.   There is also skepticism that the Macedonian parliament will pass legislation giving ethnic Albanians greater rights.