81.   In announcing the strategic shift, IBM also said it has signed partnership deals with Alatel, Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Telcordia Technologies and Ulticom.

82.   In addition, the administration and the attorney generals of New York state and Connecticut signed the deal, agreeing not to bring suits against the company.

83.   In recent weeks, deals have been signed with Carbite Golf and chipshot.com, a popular Web site for on-line shoppers.

84.   In return, automakers signed deals with the state committing them to building a certain number of nonpolluting cars, depending on their market share.

85.   In October, even before the China deal had been signed, Gore had called for enforceable labor protections in trade agreements.

86.   In particular, Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson signed deals far below what they could have commanded in a bidding war.

87.   In the past month he has signed deals that will take Starbucks into Malaysia and New Zealand, and has overseen new branch openings in Japan and Singapore.

88.   Instead, the orders went up on the Web site as soon as the deal was signed.

89.   It does not yet have an American distributor, but deals have been signed in Italy, Japan, Brazil and several other countries.

90.   It recently signed a deal that will make Hartford Insurance Co. its exclusive provider of automobile coverage.