1.   Although the agreement will affect few customers now, it is the first such pact.

2.   But the deal with IBM would be the first Internet phone pact with a major international service provider.

3.   In the Senate, members gave voice-vote approval to the free trade agreement with Jordan, the first such pact Washington has reached with an Arab country.

4.   It is the first such pact between the U.S. and an Asian trading partner.

5.   It was the first such pact between the U.S. and an Asian trading partner.

6.   Its first pact is with Montgomery Ward.

7.   Last year he walked away from the first multilateral pact on trade in financial services, an agreement the United States had initially pushed hard for.

8.   Last year he walked away from the first multilateral pact on trade in financial services, an agreement which the United States had originally pushed hard for.

9.   State officials said then that it was the first such pact in Montana that was reached by negotiating and not by courtroom strife.

10.   Arab countries on Wednesday signed the first regional pact on fighting terrorism, but made it clear that militants who target Israel will not be considered terrorists.