11.   The alliance came away with the bulk of the ministries divvied up in Bonn.

12.   The alliance comes amid a surge in genetic research.

13.   The alliance also comes amid growing consumer dissatisfaction with managed care and its limitations.

14.   The alliance comes as a preemptive effort to prevent regulation by the government to crack down on the dissemination of data about individual users by Internet companies.

15.   The alliance comes as banks and brokerage firms are partnering to provide a full menu of corporate finance services.

16.   The proposed alliance comes after TCI lost an important auction for the last available license to broadcast satellite television in the U.S.

17.   The proposed alliance comes in the wake of so-called open skies accords with Switzerland, Belgium and Austria.

18.   And this is where airline alliances come in.

19.   He noted these alliances usually come as a package deal with a U.S. carrier.

20.   He said expanding NATO would involve guaranteeing all incoming nations -- former Communist states as well as neutrals -- that the alliance would come to their defense if attacked.