11.   Fast track refers to the authority granted by Congress for the president to negotiate trade pacts that Congress can either pass or reject but cannot amend.

12.   Fast-track trade authority allows the president to negotiate trade pacts that must be approved or rejected by Congress without changes.

13.   He added that in previous agreements between the league and players, the provisions of past agreements stayed in place until a new pact was negotiated.

14.   Paxon lobbied the state legislature earlier this year to pass a law giving Pataki the ability to negotiate a pact with the Seneca Indians.

15.   Such authority would give the president the power to negotiate trade pacts free from congressional amendments.

16.   The administration wants to negotiate free trade pacts with the fast-growing Latin American countries, especially Chile.

17.   The proposed pact was negotiated by a group of state attorney generals and the tobacco industry.

18.   The president stressed the importance of Congress giving him wide latitude to negotiate free trade pacts, which he said bolster the ailing agricultural sector of the U.S. economy.

19.   These were not the kind of nontariff barriers that preoccupied Huleileh when he negotiated trade pacts with Israel six years ago.

20.   Both sides agree to negotiate a pact to allow some suspects to be tried in both Mexico and the United States before completing their sentences in either country.