31.   If all goes as expected, the Essen gathering will produce an agreement to draw up a white paper by the end of the French presidency next June.

32.   It embraced and produced rare agreement among such usual antagonists as miners, natural gas producers, guides and environmentalists.

33.   Nations have repeatedly failed to produce an agreement on what the conference aims should be.

34.   Negotiations between union leaders and government officials have so far failed to produce an agreement that can stave off the strike.

35.   Preliminary settlement talks have produced no agreement.

36.   So far, those private talks, which intensified this week, have failed to produce agreement.

37.   Sunday, the autoworkers voted overwhelmingly to give the union a strike mandate if talks fail to produce an agreement.

38.   Strike deadlines were repeatedly postponed until three hours of talks, mediated by Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer, failed to produce an agreement last week.

39.   Talks between Japan and the U.S. in Geneva last month failed to produce an agreement.

40.   The announcement came after last-minute negotiations failed to produce an agreement.