41.   The Central Unica dos Trabalhadores decided not to sign a pact with two other Brazilian labor groups that would cut federal spending on pension payments.

42.   The conflict dragged on so long that several of the guerrilla commanders who signed the pact are now gray-haired men.

43.   The new pact will be signed by the president during his state visit to Japan next week.

44.   The pact was signed Monday night in Brimley.

45.   The pacts are signed yearly with stores large and small, but the impact has been most pronounced in convenience stores.

46.   The North has also canceled cabinet-level meetings with the South and failed to sign a pact to rebuild a rail link across the demilitarized zone.

47.   The pact was signed by Chirac in Dublin last December.

48.   The State Department and the city signed a pact last month, under which the department agreed not to renew plates for these evaders.

49.   The two sides signed a pact last weekend, and originally agreed to say nothing about the terms or even that the settlement had occurred.

50.   The U.S. has already signed such pacts with Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and New Zealand.