11.   But the new alliances also have their limits.

12.   But unless NATO starts assembling ground forces soon, the alliance may not have a credible threat of a land attack before the onset of winter.

13.   Cor has an alliance with drugmaker Schering-Plough Corp. to develop and market Integrelin.

14.   Do our alliances have to be organized by department?

15.   Even half a century after it was formed, the alliance has yet to achieve it.

16.   Even a loose alliance has to be built among nations with differing national interests.

17.   Her alliance with Gore has personal as well as policy roots, not the least being that the Shaheens and Gores became grandparents last year.

18.   However, echoes linger in Washington that the alliance has no meaning unless secured by public support.

19.   How much physical rebuilding of Serbia would be undertaken and when it might begin are major political questions that the alliance has yet to address.

20.   If this new alliance has a principal target, it is Syria, which borders both Turkey and Israel and harbors longstanding grievances against both.