1.   None has loosened criminal control, though crooked operators are periodically sent to jail.

2.   An important administration argument for loosening export controls was that easing controls was the only way American computer makers could compete against widely available foreign-made technology.

3.   Are they helping to create democratic institutions and loosen state control over the media?

4.   As a WTO member China would have to reduce tariffs and loosen tough controls over foreign firms doing business here.

5.   Artists were rehabilitated, and government controls were loosened by new officials, many of whom had suffered themselves.

6.   Businesses and investors hope if prices rise slow enough, the government will loosen credit controls that have pushed down profits and share prices of Chinese companies.

7.   But any attempt to loosen controls is likely to face opposition from hard-liners at the Pentagon and conservative Republicans in Congress.

8.   But as China modernizes and loosens controls, its lure as a manufacturing base is also proving irresistible to many multinationals.

9.   But in the last two years, insurers have loosened their controls and now allow more patients to be treated in emergency rooms or overnight.

10.   Clinton insisted that over time, economic engagement with China would force the government to loosen its control over the political process.