For many reasons, this GATT, in fact, may prove to be the last sweeping global agreement of its kind.

Mr. Gore has said very little about the sweeping agreement, referring to it in passing on the day it was sealed as "good news indeed."

The elections are the fruit of the sweeping agreements to restore Solidarity's legal status and introduce other broad economic and political changes.

Poland's sweeping new agreement, promising legalized opposition, competitive elections and economic reform opens the way, 40 years later, to renewed cooperation for development.

The days of sweeping agreements, like those between the United States and the Soviet Union on nuclear weapons, seem to have passed, at least for the moment.

The two nations signed a sweeping agreement that commits Vietnam to observing open trade and investment rules that most of its Asian neighbors follow.

The chances of any legislative change are slim unless it is made part of a more sweeping agreement on spending cuts.

The ministers did announce a trade deal, though it fell far short of the sweeping agreement to lower tariffs that many countries were seeking.

In the first place, the Sandinistas only recently entered into a sweeping agreement with legitimate opposition parties that the latter concede will guarantee an equitable election process.

About three weeks ago, with little notice, the gun manufacturer posted on its Web site a "clarification" of the sweeping agreement.