21.   Clinton administration trade officials said Wednesday the April deficit stiffened their resolve to impose sanctions next week if no deal is reached before then.

22.   Compromise was reached before the Apple Cup.

23.   Even if an accord can be reached before the election, the government will not sign a comprehensive peace deal before then, Israeli officials said.

24.   Few think a final agreement will be reached before then.

25.   Harmon had said earlier that the company was confident an agreement would be reached before the midnight Saturday deadline.

26.   He figures he has several years to go because of the daunting scale of the work, which reaches back before Homer and Alexander the Great.

27.   He said Thursday that he planned to talk to legislators about negotiations over the weekend to try to make sure a deal was reached before the deadline.

28.   He said that negotiations with Gatti were continuing, but that he did not expect an agreement to be reached before the end of the year.

29.   However, Castanos admits it will be two or three years before revenue reaches current levels.

30.   If no agreement could be reached before then, the pressure to look seriously at a ground invasion and prepare for it might become overwhelming, they said.