1.  Cuba watchers say progress, though incremental, had been made toward normalized relations between the two countries.

2.  Despite credit problems, trade between the two countries has nearly quadrupled in the last five years, hitting $130 million last year.

3.  Despite the rift, however, the two countries are expected to focus on common ground.

4.  Despite the severe strains between the two countries, officials in Washington and Beijing were exploring when and where trade talks between the United States and China might resume.

5.  Director Gage (Beau Bridges) invites the intelligence heads of India and Pakistan to CIA headquarters for negotiations to head off nuclear war between the two countries.

6.  Diplomatic relations between the two countries, however, would continue.

7.  Diplomats and industry analysts warned that the blockade could quickly deteriorate into another fire fight between the two countries.

8.  Developments in the U.S. economy directly affect Canada because the two countries are each other's largest trading partners.

9.  Diplomats from the two countries had apparently reached an understanding on everything but the fine points.

10.  Direct air links between the two countries have helped develop a steady flow of business executives in both directions.