21.   If the alliance has its way, consumers will be able to create an instant network simply by plugging their computers into a phone jack.

22.   In the last election, he said the alliance had students go to pagodas in the Houston area and encourage Vietnamese Americans to register and vote by mail.

23.   It said more about aims than means, asserting that the alliance would have to confront terrorism and weapons of mass destruction while continuing to provide for collective defense.

24.   Many people question whether the loose alliance of warlords who have pledged allegiance to the interim government in Kabul have the political will to carry out the cultivation ban.

25.   Microsoft also reportedly has courted Turner Broadcasting, the owner of the CNN cable news channel, but an alliance has yet to materialize.

26.   NATO has previously assured the Russians that the alliance had no plans to put nuclear weapons on the territory of new members.

27.   On Wednesday, Lord Robertson sought to make the case the Western alliance had an important role to play in fighting terrorism.

28.   Other airline alliances already have antitrust immunity, including the Star alliance headlined by United Airlines and German carrier Lufthansa.

29.   Other airline alliances also have antitrust immunity.