51.   As joyful U.N. and Northern Alliance negotiators announced an agreement in Bonn on Wednesday for the creation of an interim Afghan government, two men in Kabul remained silent.

52.   At a meeting last month outside Chicago, the UJA and the federations that make up the council reached an agreement in principle to merge.

53.   At this point, you would want an agreement in writing and likely would need to consult a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property to hash out the details.

54.   Atacama said it reached preliminary agreements in early July with three Argentine natural gas companies to supply fuel to the power plants.

55.   Aune said the firms have signed an agreement in principle to merge and plan to have a definitive merger agreement completed by the end of November.

56.   Attardo said he expects to see laptop computers, subnotebooks and entry-level desktop machines as the first products of this agreement in Asia.

57.   Baksteen insists that KLM management has twice reneged on agreements in the last two weeks, either by adding conditions or disseminating what Baksteen says were untrue statements.

58.   BankBoston, which had entered into an agreement in January to sell its consumer finance subsidiary to Mercury, reacted quickly to the news.

59.   Barring some extraterrestrial act, the negotiators will not reach an agreement in time to short-circuit the official debut of the strikebreakers.

60.   BellSouth reached an agreement in China to set up cellular, wireless and long-distance telephone networks in two cities.