1.   Purchasing agents, while cost-conscious, also worry about breaking relations with trusted vendors and salespeople.

2.   The initiative fell well short of breaking relations with London, as some senior members of the armed forces have advised the government of President Eduardo Frei to do.

3.   Presidential aides stressed there was no question of breaking relations with the United States or Britain, even though Moscow recalled its ambassadors to protest the airstrikes.

4.   Presidential aides stressed there was no question of breaking relations with the United States or Great Britain even though Moscow recalled its ambassadors to protest the airstrikes.

5.   However, both nations fell far short of breaking relations.