111.   The disagreement threatened to undo the final budget deal, even though both sides had said earlier on Wednesday that an accord was only hours away.

112.   The immigration accord is a human-rights disaster waiting to happen.

113.   The Internet accord is largely symbolic because electronic commerce is mostly unregulated and untaxed now.

114.   The missile data accord was not the only measure intended to cope with the new dangers that have arisen following the Cold War.

115.   The peace process has been at best stagnant in recent months, with both Israelis and Palestinians expressing fierce skepticism that a long-term accord is possible.

116.   The Northern Ireland peace accord has been in crisis since the Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble resigned as first minister last week.

117.   The Oslo accords were a way of sidling up to it.

118.   The peace accord was quick and cheap, but doomed.

119.   The principle outstanding accords are the Start II Treaty that would cut American and Russian nuclear arsenals in half, and another that would ban nuclear testing.

120.   The planned accord has been in the works for more than a year.