The American agreement is formidable: a turning point, a milestone, a breakthrough.

By itself, a European and American agreement on farm subsidies would not produce a breakthrough.

Efforts to wrap up a North American free-trade agreement failed this weekend.

The former official also said the American agreement lasted no longer than six months before the United States canceled it.

The elections of 1993, in which the broader North American agreement was on the table, were a more subdued replay.

But the announcement of a recent bipartisan American agreement on new aid to the rebel movement has left unclear the timetable for such a dismantling.

A Soviet specialist observed in 1984 that recent American agreements on bases scarcely mentioned the term 'base'.

A sixth major round of talks on a North American free-trade agreement ended with no breakthroughs.

An American agreement with Ireland was especially irksome to Churchill.

Both are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.