21.   Merger experts predict that media companies will make alliances this year with the remaining independent portal companies, including Lycos, Excite, Alta Vista and maybe even Yahoo.

22.   Seagram will also face crucial issues about making alliances with other entertainment companies.

23.   Some are adopting the business practices of their commercial cousins, although under different guises, by consolidating cost-saving operations and making alliances to jointly raise funds.

24.   The Frankfurt and Paris exchanges have rival ambitions to primacy in Europe and have been making alliances or planning acquisitions while London has been distracted.

25.   The salmon federation itself was so intrigued that it made an alliance with the budding industry and developed strains of salmon suitable for fish-farming.

26.   They make alliances, the men who are clandestinely trying to change the Middle East.

27.   Though Shanghai was then under Japanese occupation, no alliance had been made with Germany, an no visa was needed to enter.

28.   This means that no one knows with whom he is making alliances.

29.   When they make alliances with adults, they want them to act as peers, too.

30.   With only one Quito-based party behind him, Alarcon has made unlikely alliances over time, and dropped them when they no longer served him.