11.   Arafat met with the envoys immediately after he and the Israeli government concluded an agreement on expanding Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank.

12.   Author Vogl said he doubts many investment agreements will be concluded during private sector events that coincide with the World Bank-IMF meetings.

13.   Bilateral agreements must be concluded with other WTO member nations, most significantly the European Union.

14.   Both sides are under pressure to conclude an agreement in time for a signing ceremony in Washington on Thursday.

15.   Both Slovenia and Croatia are expected to have concluded rescheduling agreements by next summer, he said.

16.   A spokesman for Rubin said negotiators were making progress, but it was unclear whether any agreement would be concluded on Monday.

17.   A summit between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been anticipated this week to conclude the agreement.

18.   A.C. Delco, a division of General Motors, said that it could not conclude an agreement in a timely manner, so went ahead on its own.

19.   All that remains now, Van Petten said, is to conclude agreements with individual studios.

20.   But as you know, North Korea launched a strategy whereby they could conclude an agreement with the United States directly, bypassing us.