11.   Employees with many options and shares, though, may still be able to arrange better deals elsewhere.

12.   For decades, accountants and lawyers charged by the hour for advising corporations on how to arrange deals to legally avoid as much tax as possible.

13.   In Indonesia, we have the deals arranged by and for the Suharto family, their courtiers and agents abroad.

14.   Many big accounting firms and Wall Street investment houses help arrange such deals for a fee.

15.   Nichols last year was rocked by allegations that its top managers had arranged self-enriching deals at the expense of the company.

16.   Ofort, the Russian company that arranged the deal, did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

17.   Other investors are hurrying to arrange deals before the end of the year, in the hope that they can avoid the new tax.

18.   Scuttling the move could cost the city millions, though, and a Giuliani administration official who helped arrange the deal was sharply critical of abandoning it.

19.   Some founders, critics say, are clinging to the past, when they arranged every deal personally and assumed much of the risk.

20.   So well did the GTE building suit Zurich Re that the insurance company contacted GTE directly and the deal was arranged without a broker.