11.   During the weeklong conference, delegates rejected firm promises of aid to narrow the gap between rich and poor.

12.   If they fail, the Americans will leave before the weeklong conference winds up, the officials said.

13.   Meanwhile, efforts to establish a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East crept along during the weeklong conference.

14.   The agreement was reached during a weeklong conference in his hometown of Winnipeg.

15.   The delegates have been seeking agreement on a declaration of principles and goals from the weeklong conference, which ends Sunday.

16.   The resolution was passed by consensus during the final day of the weeklong annual general conference of International Atomic Energy Agency.

17.   The reading was sponsored by the International Festival of Authors, a weeklong conference in Toronto.

18.   The sea is already rising out in the mid-Pacific, the president of tiny Micronesia told delegates on Monday, opening day of the weeklong conference.

19.   The U.N. Industrial Development Organization faces a shaky future, despite the weeklong conference aimed at reshaping the agency.

20.   The weeklong conference of the U.N. agency was marked by near unanimous calls for a nuclear test ban treaty no later than next year.