1.   American Airlines flight attendants recently negotiated a pact that will lift their salaries to the top of the industry, and other airlines will likely follow.

2.   And newly negotiated trade pacts that open foreign market to more American agricultural products.

3.   Bush said that labor, environmental and economic dislocation concerns cited by opponents of free trade would be addressed by those negotiating such pacts.

4.   Bush also urged Congress to approve a measure giving the administration wider latitude to negotiate free trade pacts.

5.   Clinton hopes to use the new power to negotiate trade pacts in South America and Southeast Asia, beginning with a free trade pact with Chile.

6.   Clinton has requested Congress give him so-called fast-track authority to negotiate trade pacts, especially with Latin America and Asia.

7.   Congress last year refused to grant the president the unilateral power to negotiate trade pacts, in part out of concern with NAFTA.

8.   Corporations insisted on restoring some kind of discount, but the break with the past gave the airlines an opportunity to negotiate new pacts.

9.   Executives at GM have been concerned that Chrysler may negotiate a pact freezing all further moves to buy parts from outside vendors.

10.   Fast track grants the president the authority to negotiate trade pacts that must be approved or rejected by Congress without amendment.