In fact, the right moves can ease common complaints like back pain and sleep troubles.

DuPont's move may at least ease some shareholder pressure for the company to split in two.

The moves, they said, are intended to improve communications between the two agencies, but may also ease the tensions that have long divided some of their members.

Such a move, they said, could cut flight delays and airline and government costs and ease handling of traffic in bad weather.

Carl Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, said the move would significantly ease respiratory problems for children and adults.

And their move, along with other political changes, eased tensions considerably after the first wave of killings.

The move will also ease the overcrowding at the graduate center, the doctorate-granting institution of the largest urban university in the United States.

But diplomats said the move would greatly ease strains on both diplomatic delegations.

Such a move could ease the difficulty that United States companies often have in moving ideas from the laboratory to the market.

The move could ease the nation's leadership struggle.