1.   But most also said the movement from welfare to work had done little to ease material hardship, and in some cases might have increased it.

2.   Now, however, these peasant soldiers who fought the Sandinistas with the backing of the Reagan administration think they have found a way to ease their hardship.

3.   Steps are also needed to ease economic hardships in the Palestinian territories, he said.

4.   State legislators with ties to the Puget Sound commercial salmon industry say they are working to ease the hardship.

5.   To ease the hardship, the U.N. in the past has offered to let Iraq sell oil for food and medicine.

6.   To ease the hardships, the U.N. has offered Iraq a number of plans to allow them to sell oil for food and medicine.

7.   To ease its hardships, the U.N. in the past offered Baghdad plans to let it sell oil for food and medicine.

8.   To ease the hardships, the U.N. put forward plans that would let Iraq sell oil for food and medicine.

9.   To ease financial hardships on the average Russian, the legislature has suggested softening the austerity measures.

10.   Yeltsin is waging his own struggle with conservatives in the Russian parliament who are pressing the Russian leader to temper political and economic reforms to ease the hardships.