1.   Bonds rose on the expectation such an accord would reduce the threat of a court award that could financially cripple a tobacco company.

2.   A U.N. spokesman in Sarajevo said he hoped that such an accord could be signed over the weekend.

3.   Clinton, lacking authority to negotiate such an accord now, is seeking to meet Caricom leaders half-way.

4.   Domenici said if Republicans lawmakers determine that such an accord is impossible, they would seek to craft such a plan of their own.

5.   Hussein left his cancer treatments to come to peace talks in Maryland to help push such an accord.

6.   Steps to ease the military confrontation would be a useful prelude to such an accord.

7.   Such an accord was the goal of the failed Camp David talks last summer.

8.   Such an accord would help prevent submarine collisions from leading to inadvertent war and accidents from causing avoidable deaths.

9.   Such an accord could significantly slow the nuclear arms race, which has diverted hundreds of billions of dollars from civilian needs and heightened the risk of nuclear warfare.

10.   Such an accord would be no mean feat.