11.   The bid would then be tendered to K-State even before the alliance makes its selections.

12.   The Hatch-Kohl alliance makes passage of the proposal almost certain when it comes up for a vote Tuesday.

13.   The Palm alliance makes it almost certain that Epoc will be running the underlying operations of most next-generation cellular phones.

14.   Travis Tanner, chief executive of the Carlson Wagonlit travel agency chain, said the alliance made sense, especially since the route systems hardly overlap at all.

15.   Yet analysts say such an alliance would make sense.

16.   A royalist-Communist alliance made its formal bid to govern Nepal on Monday after toppling Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in a vote of confidence last week.

17.   Alitalia management had said the KLM alliance made more business sense, even if France is an important political ally for Italy.

18.   However, not all alliances make the industry more competitive as intended, said Greenwald, fingering American Airlines as a culprit.

19.   If the alliance makes a strong showing in the December polls, it would provide momentum for a presidential bid by Luzhkov.

20.   Over the weekend, the northern alliance made a key concession, agreeing to hold the meeting on neutral ground.