11.   A. The Geneva Convention outlaws use, but most nations took a reservation that allowed them to maintain stockpiles for retaliatory use.

12.   After a financial crisis in Mexico two years ago, Latin American nations have been taking steps towards solving their economic problems.

13.   After the end of the year, investors may be a little more friendly to Japanese banks, as Asian nations take steps to bolster their economies.

14.   But each nation had taken on debt for a different reason.

15.   But he initiated the provision that allows member nations to take collective action against an aggressor even when such action was vetoed.

16.   But U.S. officials said they believed other nations would take steps short of sanctions to make clear to India their displeasure with the nuclear tests.

17.   But there is no denying that the First Amendment set the tone for the Bill of Rights and helped set the direction that the new nation would take.

18.   Clearly ready for a new leader, the nation could take satisfaction Wednesday night in a number of things.

19.   Even if the biological weapons were never used, the rumors of their existence could make little nations take note and might give Western powers reason to pause.

20.   Former dictator Augusto Pinochet has discovered to his chagrin that some nations take seriously their right to prosecute him for tortures perpetrated while he ruled Chile.