1.   A group of industry heavyweights joined to create Bluetooth, hoping to stave off competing standards.

2.   But those three joined to create the most intriguing news on the health front during a week when healthy eating was about as popular as that fellow Scrooge.

3.   The blocks, which are battery powered, are joined to create circuits, but the circuits quickly become complicated.

4.   These two beliefs joined to create the tradition of African-American women wearing expressive hats.

5.   The five factions that have loosely joined to create it are each dominated by a particular ethnic group or allegiance to Shiite or Sunni Islam.