71.   The State Department official, Richard L. Armitage, who visited Pakistan and India last week, said Saturday that tensions were being reduced.

72.   They also want it to keep up talks with Pakistan to reduce tensions between the countries.

73.   To reduce tensions he switched to zircons.

74.   To reduce tensions, the British government set up a commission, with Catholics and Protestants, to choose parade routes this year.

75.   U.S. businesses are attempting to reduce bilateral tensions.

76.   U.S. businesses, meanwhile, are attempting to reduce bilateral tensions.

77.   Western diplomats said the monitors are increasingly able to gain the confidence of the government and rebel leaders and broker agreements to reduce tensions.

78.   Yet anything that makes prisoners less dissatisfied reduces the tension between the inmates and prison staff, making costly disturbances less likely.

79.   Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has gone to great lengths to reduce the tension by suppressing Islamic movements implicated in terrorist acts in Kashmir ....

80.   Pakistan and mainly Hindu India have taken steps in recent weeks to reduce tensions in Kashmir, the flashpoint of two previous wars between the neighbors.