The scant rain that fell earlier this week did little to relieve dry conditions in the eastern and central parts of the state.

The new rules are the city's way of complying with a decade-old court order requiring it to relieve overcrowded and unsanitary conditions in the emergency unit.

The law is acquainted with such emergencies, and explicitly permits the termination of pregnancy when undertaken to relieve or cure such conditions.

Evidence is mounting that alternative techniques like acupuncture, hypnosis and some herbal remedies can help relieve such conditions.

And after almost two terms served by Roosevelt, Morgenthau assessed the federal effort to relieve economic conditions by proclaiming, "We have tried spending money.

It is injected to relieve several spastic conditions of the eye, face and nervous system.

It is traditionally used to relieve rheumatic conditions, and to remove damp-heat.

When reservation residents spend portions of their sometimes very sparse incomes gambling, casinos can serve to exacerbate rather than relieve conditions of poverty.

In Maryland, the rainfall helped to relieve persistent dry conditions.

The Stoners had created the corridor to relieve cramped conditions, confinement of the mind if not any real confinement of their personal space.