1.   But administration officials said Friday that they had no illusions that the corruption accord alone would put a huge dent in the multibillion-dollar international bribery business.

2.   Clinton earlier signed into law a measure agreeing with other nations to crackdown on international bribery.

3.   One would expect a company whose chief executive is brought down by an international bribery scandal to be plunged into crisis.

4.   Such a designation would make anyone who bribes an IOC member subject to penalties under the chief federal law against international bribery, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

5.   The biggest surprise in the results was how badly the United States fared, despite its long history of inveighing against international commercial bribery.

6.   Bolanos proposed measures against influence trafficking, fraud, international bribery and inexplicable enrichment by public officials.