There is near-universal agreement that senators should serve two six-year terms, but there is widespread disagreement over how long House members should serve.

But, for the first time in fifteen years, there is near-universal agreement that there is a prospect of peace.

"There is near-universal agreement," he reports without footnote or elaboration, "that ever since 1970 or so, we have been economically and spiritually adrift."

There is also near-universal agreement that the Kurds must be brought down from the mountains and resettled on more accessible terrain.

Italians are in near-universal agreement that the Government must waste no time grabbing hold of its deficit.

A leaked UK government report endorses Malaysian forestry practices as "sustainable", despite near-universal agreement that this is not the case.

IT is a matter of near-universal agreement in Westchester that property taxes are too high.

He said there was finally near-universal agreement that something had to be done, and that the main question now was how to pay for it.

If there is near-universal agreement that Sept. 11 changed America, there is a wide range of opinion about what that transformation consists of.

Scientists are in near-universal agreement that that day has not yet come.