11.   The new agreement with Samsung could lead to similar accords between Texas Instruments and other computer chip-makers in the next several years, Peck said.

12.   The U.S.-Japan settlement came one week after a similar accord between the European Union and Japan.

13.   After an initial stall, Britain and the United States on Thursday resumed talks aimed at concluding a similar accord.

14.   At Madrid, the EU plans to sign a free trade accord with Chile, two years after signing a similar accord with Mexico.

15.   Cuba has since signed compensation agreements with Switzerland, France, Great Britain, Italy and Mexico and is completing similar accords with Spain.

16.   EFTA already has free trade agreements with Israel, Morocco and Turkey and is to open negotiations with Egypt on Tuesday in Geneva for a similar accord.

17.   Egypt and Israel will resume talks Thursday on a gas agreement that ran into trouble after Israel signed a similar accord with the Gulf emirate of Qatar last month.

18.   Germany has reached a similar accord with Estonia and is negotiating one with Latvia, the third Baltic republic.

19.   He also expressed hope a similar accord could be reached for games in South Korea.

20.   He expects the investment treaty to speed up negotiations for similar accords with other countries including the United States.