1.   But the company has tied the authorization to a plan to spin off its Neiman Marcus stake to Harcourt shareholders.

2.   Certainly, Japanese and American companies have been tying the knot in droves through alliances, partnerships and cooperative ventures in asset management and insurance.

3.   Fire Commissioner James Joyce told The Associated Press that the scaffolding company would tie the dangling scaffolding to the building because it was too windy to remove it tonight.

4.   In accumulating assets, a company ties its success to a certain way of doing business.

5.   Some companies tie that information with government data available on individual citizens.

6.   The company ties those ratings to a variety of incentives -- such as discounts, marketing assistance and favorable credit.

7.   The company tied the costs increase to new consolidations as well as to start-up costs for some of its so-called revenue-enhancing programs.

8.   The gains set off a rebound in technology companies with products tied to the new operating system.

9.   The two auto parts companies most obviously tied to domestic automakers are Delphi, a spinoff of General Motors, and Visteon, a spinoff of Ford.

10.   They said the company illegally tied Windows to Internet Explorer in an effort to vanquish other browsers, including Navigator by Netscape, now owned by AOL Time Warner.