31.   The Fletcher-Durham deal, worked out over several months, has several side agreements, the Senate and administration officials said.

32.   The deal, plus a possible side agreement with Sun, could give AOL the technological depth needed to dominate new standards for the growing world of electronic commerce.

33.   The five Japanese employees involved with the sales lied to the company about the existence of side agreements, Kertzman said.

34.   The NAFTA Commission for Environmental Cooperation was created by a side agreement to the trade pact among the United States, Mexico and Canada.

35.   The legislation, however, permits side agreements to trade pacts that could spell out the intent of the United States to protect labor and environmental standards.

36.   The NAFTA side agreement gives the panel almost no enforcement powers and limits it to holding hearings and issuing reports.

37.   The side agreement blunted but by no means eliminated opposition from environmental groups to the trade pact.

38.   The U.S. and Mexico, under a Nafta side agreement on the environment, will work together to offer affordable financing for clean water projects for border communities.

39.   Those more general provisions would have to be covered in side agreements which are more difficult to enforce.

40.   Those more general provisions would have to be covered in side agreements, which are more difficult to enforce.