In measuring quality, the government would rely in part on data reported by the industry, which has lobbied for relief from regulations it considers onerous.

A $70 billion debt is not considered onerous, given the Soviet Union's vast resources and its potential for earning hard currency from exports.

Bank credit is available, but only at a price, and on conditions businesses consider too onerous.

To make the index liquid, these terms must include provisions for redemptions that some managers may consider too onerous to be acceptable.

The streamlined contract would eliminate many of the work rules that city officials consider onerous.

Other states, including Louisiana and New York, also enacted restrictions, although they were considered less onerous.

Mr. Pataki pointedly declined, though asked at least three times, to name any specific regulation he considered onerous.

Irish bankruptcy laws are considered more onerous than in Britain.

The provision that the experts consider most onerous for the institutions is called the qualified thrift lender test.

The cost of a visa - set at $35 under the European Union's rules - is considered onerous for many Russians.