51.   The four trading partners, known as the quadrilateral group, negotiated concessions designed to prod other nations to improve their offers to remove restrictions on foreign investment.

52.   The federation removed export restrictions for July and August.

53.   The House bill would also remove longstanding restrictions that have prevented television broadcasters to own radio stations, newspapers and cable systems in the same market.

54.   The General Conference of the United Methodist Church has just rejected petitions for removing restrictions against homosexuality.

55.   The ministry also lifted a ban on foreign lending by life insurers and removed restrictions on the purchase of Euroyen bonds by Japanese investors.

56.   The ministries of finance and agriculture issued a notice that removed restrictions on how, and to what extent, the associations could lend funds.

57.   The new British-American plan would have removed remaining restrictions on civilian trade.

58.   The open skies treaty, once signed and fully enacted, will remove restrictions on routes, flight frequency and ticket prices between the U.S. and Taiwan.

59.   The plan also removed restrictions on holdings of Euroyen bonds by Japanese institutions.

60.   The push to remove restrictions on exports comes as the latest step in a string of deregulatory measures designed to increase the competitiveness of the Japanese oil industry.