31.   Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, the British and Irish prime ministers, were unable to broker a compromise this week.

32.   Tuesday night, after nine weeks of grueling negotiations, his aides brokered a compromise with groups representing doctors, employers, consumers and health maintenance organizations.

33.   UT Student Government President Annie Holand cq said she also hopes to broker a compromise with athletics officials in Austin.

34.   Under pressure from environmentalists and the logging industry, the Clinton administration brokered that compromise allowing logging on about a third of remaining federally owned old-growth forests.

35.   When a woman at the Newton fund-raiser asked what separated her from Harshbarger, McGovern, among other things, cited her legislative experience brokering compromise.

36.   When it tries to expand free trade, it must broker political compromises to move negotiations forward.

37.   Powell has tried to broker a compromise.

38.   Al-Sahhaf, arriving later in the Jordanian capital Amman, said his country hoped that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan would be able to broker a compromise.

39.   Arab League Secretary-General Esmat Abdel-Meguid tried to broker a compromise to get the Iraqis in.

40.   Associates of the president said Sunday that he had no intention of resigning and would continue to try to broker a compromise.