11.   ACP countries fear such a split would weaken their bargaining power with Europe.

12.   Astrologer Songwut Pagasit agreed that such a split would be bad for the government.

13.   Chemerinsky said he thought the court would try to avoid such a split.

14.   Just the fact that Congress will debate welfare reform without Medicaid changes was a major disappointment to Republican governors, who have lobbied fiercely against such a split.

15.   Some villages already are showing signs of such a split.

16.   Some villages in the southwest already are showing signs of such a split, and Argun, Gudermes and Shali are the next target.

17.   Ali Jarbawi, a political scientist at Bir Zeit University near the West Bank town of Ramallah, did not rule out such a split.