31.   On Thursday a spokesman for one alliance partner, the Trinamool Congress party, urged Vajpayee to takes steps to avoid more violence.

32.   Surviving the coming year will depend on continual adjustments to inventory, hard-sales promotions, further price-cuts and supporting alliance partners.

33.   Surviving the coming year will depend on continual adjustments to inventory, hard-sales promotions, further price cuts and supporting alliance partners.

34.   The Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition is facing a threat from its own alliance partners because of in-fighting.

35.   The coordination committee is his idea and perhaps his last chance to keep the alliance partners from fighting in the open.

36.   The United States gave its northern alliance partners a few hours notice before sending Marines into southern Afghanistan, the alliance foreign minister Dr. Abdullah said Monday.

37.   The United States has yet to lay out detailed evidence in its case against bin Laden to would-be alliance partners, or at least not publicly.

38.   Whether he will be able to withstand pressures from his alliance partners is the million-dollar question.

39.   He and his alliance partners called for the result to be thrown out.

40.   A Polish official said last month the government hoped to find a new alliance partner for LOT by the end of the first quarter this year.