1.   And to jump-start trade, the pact provides for financing by foreign banks.

2.   But the pact does not provide for deployment of Japanese self-defense forces alongside American GIs against a common enemy.

3.   But the pact did not provide for the costs incurred by federal programs such as Medicare and the Veterans Administration.

4.   EntreMed Inc., of Rockville, Md., said Tuesday the two-year pact provides an undisclosed amount of funding to Dr. Karen Moulton.

5.   The pact also provided a host of benefits, including pension plans, aircraft usage, club dues and financial counseling.

6.   The pact provides for an operation that is intended to strengthen peace by tracking down Hutu militias and any other armed groups.

7.   Union officials said the new pact provides better pensions, wages, health care coverage and job security.

8.   A bilateral defense pact provides for the building on Qatari territory of the largest U.S. weapons storage site outside the United States.

9.   A conventional defense pact cannot provide the mix of peacekeeping and peacemaking demanded by this new generation of conflict.

10.   Annan has said the pact provided for unlimited access to palace compounds.