1.  A digital signature works by turning identifying information into a secret code that only the participating parties can unscramble.

2.  If the process makes it to that point, the participating parties will take up the matter of squaring two positions with little consonance.

3.  This technology would take sales contract information and make it available to a network for participating parties.

4.  Any of the other six participating parties have the power to file an indictment against Sinn Fein when the talks resume Monday in Dublin, the Irish capital.

5.  Blair discussed the barriers blocking an agreement with the talks chairman, former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell, and then talked by phone with several leaders of participating parties.

6.  But despite the remaining obstacles, the eight exhilarated and exhausted participating parties signed off Friday afternoon on a document that took the peace process a giant leap forward.

7.  Campaigning for early general elections on the Dutch island of Aruba has begun, with the participating political parties presenting candidates, authorities said Saturday.

8.  Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell had hoped to present his proposals by late Friday so that he and the eight participating parties could discuss them over the weekend.

9.  Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell was expected to present his paper late Friday to the eight participating parties and discuss its contents over the weekend with each of them.

10.  Generally lauded by other participating parties, the British-Irish plan emphasized that Catholic and Protestant politicians should form a power-sharing assembly within Northern Ireland.