21.   At the same time, Anderson has met Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who oversees compensation programs, in search of common ground.

22.   Compensation programs valued at billions of dollars have been negotiated in the past several years and may begin paying money this spring.

23.   Congress approved the compensation program last year.

24.   Costs have been limited by cutting discretionary spending and adjusting performance-based compensation programs, executives said.

25.   Deutsche Bank has agreed to participate in a compensation program sponsored by the German government that would be funded by numerous private businesses in Germany.

26.   Details of the compensation program are still being worked out between the Agriculture Department and the White House Budget Office.

27.   Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was to announce the compensation program, most of which will still have to be approved by Congress.

28.   Germany claimed its more generous national compensation program would be weakened.

29.   He also met recently with Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat, who oversees compensation programs.

30.   Kaurich said many of the workers died long before the compensation program began.