1.   The prisoners can each be sure of benefiting if they have a previously agreed pact never to confess, whatever the circumstances.

2.   But if NorthPoint should stumble, he said, Telocity also has pacts with other DSL wholesale service providers who could step in.

3.   Colorado Rockies pitchers are said to have a pact with Satan.

4.   Daly still has a pact with Reebok International Ltd. that will expire this year and is being renegotiated, the Stoughton, Massachusetts-based company said.

5.   He has a pact with Brazilian clubs to call in no more than two players from each, so as not to weaken those teams excessively.

6.   Peruvian army officers are said to have pacts with major cocaine traffickers in the region.

7.   The company also has pacts with cable companies to be the ISP at the end of their upgraded cable lines.

8.   Qatar, a small Gulf state on the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula, already has similar pacts with the United States and France.

9.   British defense companies have lost out on lucrative arms deals with the U.A.E. because the former colonial power had no pact with the energy-rich country.

10.   He noted the Evangelical Lutherans also have a pact with the United Church of Christ, which sanctions same-sex relationships.