81.   On Tuesday Volkswagen said it was ready to accept a compromise deal to allow negotiations on the EU rules to be completed.

82.   Observers had counted on a compromise three percent deal.

83.   Spanish Finance Minister Rodrigo Rato said early Friday after marathon negotiations EU finance ministers have reached a compromise deal on the French budget deficit deadline.

84.   Spanish Finance Minister Rodrigo Rato said early Friday that the finance ministers had reached a compromise deal on the French budget deficit deadline.

85.   That would in effect have freed all the players but a compromise deal was reached which averted a crisis.

86.   The compromise deal was hammered out after two weeks of intense negotiation, with Pakistan -- at loggerheads with India over Kashmir.

87.   The compromise deal was mediated by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, after Yeltsin put pressure on Lukashenko and Sharetsky to give ground.

88.   The compromise deal was mediated by Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin after Yeltsin put pressure on Lukashenko to give ground.

89.   The new round of political confrontation killed off the compromise deal worked out Friday.