In one recent breakthrough agreement, not previously disclosed, the three countries agreed to treat each other's advertising companies as they treat their own.

In a breakthrough agreement, cane growers have now pledged $40 million to help clean up their destructive waste.

Mr. Leahy was somewhat optimistic, saying that he thought the compromise on medical criteria was "a breakthrough agreement."

As a result, he altered collection routes and negotiated a breakthrough agreement with the sanitation union to reduce collection crews, to two workers from three.

However, shortly thereafter they signed another breakthrough agreement according to which they "would be considered for government and army posts", but not automatically appointed.

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But the breakthrough agreement was made possible by the lawmakers' willingness to try to protect consumers and poor communities from being trampled in the process.

But he added, "Despite some difficulties of late, I believe we will reach the mountaintop and realize the enormous promise of this breakthrough agreement."

Ministers said the breakthrough agreement lays the groundwork for discussions of agricultural policy at the economic summit meeting in Venice June 8-10.

In Maastricht, in the Netherlands, the European Community's heads of government will seek to reach a breakthrough agreement on political union.