11.   The alliance also gives Petro-Canada an entry into the Norwegian part of the North Sea.

12.   The alliances give the corporate barter groups another distribution system and the smaller businesses get more products to trade for.

13.   The alliance gives Motorola another outlet for its PowerPC computer chips, which the company has been having trouble selling.

14.   The alliances give much-needed funding to cash-hungry biotech companies while giving big drugmakers access to novel research and patents.

15.   The alliance has already given its approval to three so-called launch projects.

16.   The new alliance gives ABC a tie to executives with wide experience in television.

17.   The NATO diplomat noted that the alliance has given Milosevic comfort by failing to live up to repeated threats of using its air power.

18.   Their alliance gives the high school girl a sense of balance in her disordered, formerly dead-end life.

19.   After two days of fruitless talks, Holbrooke flew Tuesday night to NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, where the alliance gave the final go-ahead for airstrikes.

20.   After two days of fruitless talks, the NATO alliance gave the final go-ahead for airstrikes.