11.   But it is opposed to pressure from the EU for global pacts on investment and competition policy.

12.   Clinton hails global warming pact.

13.   Efforts to clinch a global pact to open up telephone services to competition are making progress, officials said Friday.

14.   Environmentalists, meanwhile, complained that new demands in the latest talks were eviscerating the global warming pact.

15.   Europe Thursday agreed to join the United States in a landmark global pact aimed at making computers and related products cheaper within three years, officials said.

16.   He said sub-Saharan Africa stood to lose foreign business under the global trading pact known as the General Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade, or GATT.

17.   It said in November last year it would seek more alliances in Asia after Singapore Airlines dropped out of a global pact.

18.   President George W. Bush, offering his alternative to the Kyoto global warming pact, wants U.S. businesses to voluntarily track and reduce their output of greenhouse gases.

19.   The European Union trade ministers stepped in Friday to try to salvage what they could of a global pact that would liberalize trade in banking, insurance and securities.

20.   The global pact that would phase out monopolies and restrictions on competition that have allowed telephone companies to overcharge for calls and given them little incentive to upgrade services.