1.   For family-owned Bridas, the accord gives it a strong partner to develop its regional business and a cash injection to help finance expansion elsewhere.

2.   For Seagram, which owns Universal Studios, the accord gives it a badly needed presence in television.

3.   Hamas has also tried to walk its own fine line between opposing the agreement with Israel and looking for a share of the power that the accord gives Palestinians.

4.   Hoffa said the accord gave trucking firms too much sway over driver work assignments and allowed too much diversion of business to railroads.

5.   However, U.N. refugee officials say that the Dayton accord does give NATO the power to help if it wants to.

6.   Kocharian demands that any peace accord give Armenia the right to intervene militarily in response to Azerbaijani hostilities against ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.

7.   Justice Minister Meir Shitrit maintained that the Israeli-Palestinian peace accords gave Israel the full right to enter Palestinian territory to protect its citizens and soldiers.

8.   Previous accords have given the Palestinian Authority a measure of control over portions of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

9.   That earlier accord gave rise to the Kyoto Protocol, which is expected to be formally adopted at a meeting in the fall in Marrakesh, Morocco.

10.   The accord also gave him amnesty for any violent acts committed before the signing.