11.   British delegates, who played a crucial role in negotiating the Kyoto agreements, deflect suggestions that there might have been a secret deal.

12.   But Enron executives got rich by deceiving the world with secret deals not recorded on their balance sheets.

13.   But Ellis said he strongly believes that secret deals are being made for the story.

14.   But he denied that there had been any secret deal.

15.   But Thomas Mann, a fellow with the Brookings Institute, another think tank, said Norwood may pay a price for the secret deal.

16.   Despite his close ties with Columbia, Aboud grew concerned that his secret deal might not come to pass.

17.   Did France make a secret deal with Sudan?

18.   Does that suggest that Smith has cut a secret deal with France, who is only holding to his hard line as a matter of political correctness?

19.   European Union finance ministers clashed over the president of the future Europe-wide central bank, with Germany denying a secret deal to give a Frenchman the post.

20.   Even those of us who have never met Ford would be shocked to discover that he made any secret deals, with Nixon or anyone else.