Under Chairman Michael Powell, the Commission sought to significantly relax media ownership regulations.

Another was the European Central Bank's announcement that it would provide unlimited three-year loans to commercial banks and significantly relax collateral rules.

In the mid-19th century, the Ottoman empire significantly relaxed the restrictions and taxes placed on its non-Muslim residents under Ottomanism.

Driving back to Los Angeles through the desert, feeling significantly relaxed, it was hard to disagree.

The conferees also significantly relaxed the controls on technology exports and broke longstanding deadlocks on several issues that have delayed completion of the trade bill.

Until Monday, many media experts had expected that some time between Labor Day and Christmas, the commission would complete that review by significantly relaxing those rules.

It was determined that fears of subversive activity at the camp were largely without basis, and security was relaxed significantly.

In 1984, the FCC significantly relaxed these rules.

Alfred C. Sikes, the commission's chairman, said he thought the rule was now outdated, and should at the least be relaxed significantly.

Mr. Wilson, who is now a lobbyist, added, "I think the obsession of public officials with political correctness is going to significantly relax."