21.   Bush does not have to buy whole-cloth the anxiety of the Southern Kim that time is running out to cut deals with the North.

22.   But as establishments and their consumption gets larger, marketers become more willing to cut special deals.

23.   But Fox, his advisers and some analysts say that cutting deals is what both the president-elect and his National Action Party do best.

24.   But Hernandez denies that he cut any deals.

25.   But in the end, McCain voted for it in hope, he said, of forcing Clinton to negotiate a better tax cut deal for average Americans.

26.   But many industry lobbyists said they were convinced a deal had been cut.

27.   But not all Republicans saluted the balanced budget and tax cut deal that Gingrich and his GOP colleagues sealed with the White House.

28.   But industry analysts and bank advisers said banking executives were not rushing to cut deals like the huge marriages of other financial services giants completed in the last year.

29.   But rather than appoint a committee, Birmingham and Finneran simply cut the deal themselves, as they have on other major bills.

30.   But the deal has been cut.