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WASHINGTON — Facing rising pressure to limit government surveillance programs and provide more information about them, leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees have begun negotiating new safeguards and privacy restrictions that they hope to turn into legislation in September, lawmakers said Thursday.

India is facing rising pressure to deal with concerns over poor facilities and security at the Commonwealth Games.

The scheme launches as supermarkets face rising pressure to reduce waste.

Mr. Barak faced rising pressure to order a large reprisal attack after Israelis grappled for what analysts said was the first time with live images of their wounded soldiers on television.

Daniel Sisto, the president of the Healthcare Association of New York State, in Rensselaer, said that hospitals in New York faced rising pressure because of cuts in federal aid to elderly and poor patients and slow reimbursement from insurers.

More recently baseej forces have ringed the homes of two other prominent dissident ayatollahs in a blunt effort to block them from becoming a focus for protest.Perhaps worse yet for Iran's government, its troubles at home have crippled its foreign policy, at a time when it faces rising pressure to curb its controversial nuclear programme.

These latest very visible scars on the fabric of economic life have appeared as the coalition faces rising pressure to get a grip on a slump that has now lasted five years: what ratings agency Moody's last week called a "lost half-decade", echoing the name given to Japan's long period of stagnation from the early 1990s.

As Cuba faces rising pressures to expand its agricultural exports and imports, the "million-dollar question," said Chappell, is whether Cuba will balance protections for its own farmers and domestic food production needs with the push to feed both tourists and outside markets.

Facing rising numbers, pressure is growing to better manage women's needs in prison, advocates say.

Even as the national government is stalled, some of India's poorest states, facing rising public pressure to deliver good governance and economic growth, are making progress.