1.   Although criminal defense lawyers have questioned the fairness of the amnesty program, no one doubts that the global price-fixing collusions already exposed have affected every American consumer.

2.   Amnesty programs can quickly become counterproductive.

3.   Another goal of the trip was to erase tensions that arose last month when the White House was reported to be considering an amnesty program strictly for Mexicans.

4.   Aside from assisting prosecutors, the amnesty program has another benefit, officials say.

5.   A couple of months ago, Bush was on the amnesty program.

6.   After that thousands of its members were jailed or turned themselves in under a Government amnesty program.

7.   Britain recently adopted an amnesty program similar to the American one, which is intended to encourage companies to step forward and acknowledge their roles in such cartels.

8.   But at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, lawmakers also warned that public opposition could make a large-scale amnesty program difficult to enact.

9.   But he rules out any amnesty program for people who have entered the United States illegally.

10.   But critics of the amnesty program and of what some call lenient immigration laws disagree.