1.   Much worse could follow as the new board steers contracts to law and building firms, especially if a proposed enlargement of the canal goes ahead.

2.   On Russia, the elements are all in place, so long as NATO enlargement goes ahead sensitively but firmly.

3.   Rosati said he believed that, whoever wins the Russian election, concessions will be demanded from the West in return for allowing NATO enlargement to go ahead.

4.   Britain hopes to at least get the debate on track so the enlargement can go ahead in the first half of the next decade.

5.   In an interview published Monday in a German magazine, he said Russia would be forced to review its military stance if NATO enlargement goes ahead.

6.   In an interview published Monday in a German magazine he said Russia would be forced to review its military stance if NATO enlargement goes ahead.

7.   Adjustments to the legislation needed for enlargement to go without Norway would be minimal, the Commission said.

8.   Units such as the Romanian engineering battalion have scored high marks with NATO officers saying that, operationally at least, NATO enlargement should go smoothly.

9.   Without ratification from all member states the enlargement cannot go ahead.

10.   Russian national security chief Alexander Lebed Monday warned that Moscow might not ratify the START II nuclear reduction accord and other treaties if NATO enlargement went ahead.