11.   And when Gore offered a handshake deal to eschew television commercials, Bradley sarcastically rejected it.

12.   Another lawyer who has worked on many airline bankruptcies, Craig Ulman, speculated that a purchase agreement would be upheld in court unless a better deal was offered.

13.   As the prosecutor told it later, Whitehurst had hinted that the girl might be alive, and he offered the deal only in the hope of rescuing her.

14.   Banks with well-established track records for offering better deals include AFBA Industrial, USAA and Bank of New York, McKinley says.

15.   Because of that, retailers may find themselves offering financing deals to keep sales levels up.

16.   Because the company is introducing the ship, it is offering deals on advance purchases.

17.   Because the most promising deals are generally offered to the best-established firms, the industry is intrinsically hierarchical.

18.   Beyond the outside compensation Jerry Jones has focused on, Bowlen said all of the involved teams will be forced by the cap to offer similar deals.

19.   Both are offering generous deals in the United States and expanding their dealership networks here to try to offset weak sales in their home market.

20.   Both were offered deals and told the team to shove them.