61.   Last week, Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott made comments that signaled such an agreement would be better left to the states and the companies, not Congress.

62.   Last year, British Airways Chief Executive Robert Ayling told the Bloomberg Forum he would consider American as a potential partner for such an agreement.

63.   Louisiana is the first state to reach such an agreement.

64.   Mrs. McKnight said she knew nothing about such an agreement.

65.   Most firms tell customers who refuse to sign such an agreement to take their business elsewhere.

66.   Negotiating such an agreement is not as ambitious as it sounds.

67.   Neither Yeltsin nor Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin has indicated whether anyone from the central government will take the formal steps necessary to sign off on such an agreement.

68.   No one has been able to spell out how the administration proposes to enforce such an agreement.

69.   Now, she denies any knowledge of such an agreement.

70.   Palestinian officials said they had no interest in signing such an agreement.