11.   Dole, the front-running candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, has for several weeks been struggling to broker a compromise on welfare legislation.

12.   Each pro-casino group maintains that it tried to broker a compromise.

13.   French political leaders tried and failed to broker a compromise between the banks.

14.   Gramlich, the dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Affairs, struggled unsuccessfully to broker a compromise between the Ball group and Weaver and Schieber.

15.   Hastert sought to broker a compromise, sponsored by Shadegg and Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

16.   He has spent months trying to broker a compromise between the competing views of industry, privacy groups, law enforcement agencies and lawmakers.

17.   He brokered compromises between environmentalists and the timber industry, leading to expansion of the Big Thicket National Preserve.

18.   IBM then brokered a compromise, announced on Friday, in which some technology from Sony and Philips was incorporated into the Toshiba system to produce a unified standard.

19.   In November, Levitt asked New York lawyer Ira Millstein and Columbia University law professor Harvey Goldschmid to meet with representatives on both sides to broker a compromise.

20.   Last year, Hall tried to broker compromises so his congressional colleagues would approve U.S. payment of its U.N. dues.