This agreement enables us to increase our global competitive advantage in IP communications and further strengthen our position in the Asia Pacific region.

AMR is pleased to have reached a reasonable, constructive and mutually beneficial agreement that we think fairly addresses our ownership position in Canadian and provides for American?s continued access to the Canadian marketplace.

Hopefully, we can move on to other things. I still think it was something much better handled by agreement than it would have been by legislation.

This new flexibility which goes well beyond the 1995 agreement will improve how the NAFTA works and it will make North America more competitive.

This agreement reaffirms that major league players are committed to the elimination of performance-enhancing substances and that the system of collective bargaining is responsive and effective in dealing with issues of this type.

We had an agreement with Ford, worked out in good faith.