21.   India hopes to win a permanent Security Council seat if member nations can agree to expand the size of the Council by adding countries from developing nations.

22.   Just a few weeks ago, the two nations agreed to harmonize the differences between their two patent systems.

23.   Many other nations agree that the scale needs reworking, but only to reflect real changes in the world economy.

24.   Major shipbuilding nations agreed after five years of negotiations to scrap subsidies to their shipyards, but France rejected the deal, negotiators said.

25.   Most Eastern European nations have agreed to dismantle trade barriers with the West.

26.   More of the technology is civilian, and fewer nations are agreeing to control it.

27.   Most of the havens were well known in banking circles, but wealthy nations had not agreed to identify them publicly.

28.   One critic in a national magazine compared her to the young Kirsten Flagstad, and the nation agreed.

29.   Rather, the two nations simply agreed to forewarn the other before a test took place.

30.   Significantly, Islamic nations finally did agree to language asserting that women have the right to control their own sexual lives.