11.   A health insurance bill will be harder to approve if compromise is not reached before Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole leaves, a prime sponsor says.

12.   A late-night bargaining session on Monday had cleared away many issues, and there were growing hopes that a settlement might even be reached before the deadline.

13.   A harmonious solution could be reached before that.

14.   A tentative contract was reached shortly before a strike deadline last Friday.

15.   A sixth was named under an agreement Chiles reached shortly before his death with Bush, who was then the governor-elect.

16.   Brittan said earlier he is confident an agreement can be reached before the midnight deadline.

17.   But even though the tentative agreement was reached minutes before midnight, the company convinced Airbus to extend the deadline.

18.   But if no deal with Syria is reached before Israel withdraws from Lebanon, compromise could prove harder.

19.   But the officials said there was no particular number of incoming refugees to be reached before putting the plan into effect.

20.   But the first three Cardinals to reach base all ran on Jones and Piazza, the catcher, and all three reached base before the throw.