It can restore health, as well as appearance, quickly easing conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure.

In salt mines, the walls absorbed the moisture and eased conditions.

To ease working conditions underground, the company has installed a $19 million air-conditioning system, Mr. Brown said.

"The economies are enjoying strong stimulus from easing monetary conditions," he said.

The Italian government is considering a general pardon or amnesty to ease conditions in the country's badly crowded prisons.

Bee venom, hailed as a natural medicine to ease conditions from arthritis to cancer, has been deemed unsafe to eat.

This addition was part of continued efforts to ease crowded conditions.

The fund said that "further actions to ease monetary conditions across Europe" were "clearly necessary to stem recessionary forces and to insure recovery during 1994."

He was particularly involved with issues of transport, campaigning to keep public transport fares low, to ease travelling conditions for passengers and reduce accidents.

With the economy showing signs of life, the bank has been under less pressure to ease monetary conditions.