11.   For RWE, the deal represents its latest effort to expand through acquisitions.

12.   For Santa Clara-based Intel, the deal represents in part a defection by a longtime customer.

13.   For Verizon, the deal represents the end of a long and unsuccessful effort to profit by selling movies and other content over its telephone lines.

14.   For Grove Bank shareholders, the deal represents a financial windfall.

15.   For Huntsman, based in Salt Lake City, the deal represents quick entry into Asia and parts of Europe where Imperial is strong but Huntsman is virtually unknown.

16.   For Les Taniuk, a member of the anti-Communist Rukh party in the Ukrainian parliament, the John Deere deal represents a missed opportunity.

17.   Gary Ruskin, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Accountability Project, criticized the ruling and said that the book deal represented a conflict of interest.

18.   For Westinghouse, the deal represents perhaps the last major step in its effort to turn itself from an industrial conglomerate into a media powerhouse.

19.   If politics is the art of the possible, this deal represented the art of politics.

20.   In separate conference calls with reporters, American Online and Gateway asserted that their deal represented an inevitable convergence of hardware makers and Internet providers.