11.   British Airways has an alliance with AMR.

12.   BT has an alliance in Germany with Viag AG, a competitor to Veba.

13.   British Telecommunications has an alliance with Hutchison.

14.   Chiroscience has alliances with Powderject Pharmaceuticals Plc, Medeva Plc and Nestle, among others.

15.   Customers include Chevron Corp. and Pfizer Inc., and SilverStream has alliances with Sun Microsystems Inc. and Netscape Communications Corp.

16.   De Soto hopes to foment a revolution, but his ideas have intriguing alliances with a revolution well under way, the microcredit movement.

17.   Even British Telecommunications PLC, the once state-owned telephone monopoly, has several alliances with the software maker.

18.   For example, Texaco and Shell have consolidated their retail operations, and British Petroleum and Mobil have an alliance in Europe.

19.   For years, Checkfree had an alliance with Intuit, which makes Quicken, the leading personal finance program.

20.   GM has longstanding alliances with Isuzu Motors, Suzuki Motor and Toyota Motor.