1.   The US-Canada free trade accord came under severe political scrutiny in the first year since its ratification.

2.   An accord comes after several months of negotiations among producers and speculation the group would break apart because of a larger than anticipated Brazilian harvest.

3.   A telecom accord came a step closer to completion today when the U.S. presented a revised offer to further open its telecom market to competition.

4.   Few people here expect major accords to come out of the meeting with Bush.

5.   In the end, the accord came only after Enron agreed to give the state energy company a bigger share of the venture, Mozambique officials said.

6.   No firm accord came out of the talks, held under the muzzles of Israeli tanks surrounding the shell-blasted compound.

7.   The accord also came during the worst week of fighting of the six-month guerrilla conflict.

8.   The accord comes after four days of talks on Orcas Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle.

9.   The accord comes in the midst of a restructuring of the Italian banking system.

10.   The accord came after almost five years of often acrimonious negotiations that wove in and out of the courts.