11.   But Sprint still needs a partner of some sort.

12.   But this year, three years after the MTA concluded that it needed a partner with greater financial expertise, lengthy talks with Chase Manhattan Bank collapsed.

13.   Daniel Bouton, chief executive of Societe Generale, strongly suggested in an interview published Monday the French newspaper Le Monde that his bank needed foreign partners.

14.   For that it needs a partner with extensive telephone experience.

15.   For the rest, Roth, who now heads his own company, Revolution Studios, said Disney needed a partner.

16.   It needs a partner.

17.   Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were thrown together as Nottingham, England, teen-agers who needed partners.

18.   Knowing she needed strategic partners, Mrs. Lundberg began talks with Deutsche Telekom.

19.   Need a partner?

20.   She decided he needed a partner and invented Havers.