31.   The deal represents another lobbying victory for insurance agents, who have also blocked Clinton administration plans to allow bank mergers with insurance companies.

32.   The final deal represents something of a coming of age not only for Kroll Associates but for many in the investigations industry that Kroll pioneered.

33.   The Kraft deal represents the first time Cartoon Network will use characters from both its Hanna-Barbera and Looney Tunes libraries in a promotion campaign.

34.   The Sun-Star Division deal represents the first time that more basic applications like word processing and spreadsheets have moved to the Internet.

35.   The Targeted Genetics deal represents a new strategy in vaccine research in another way as well.

36.   The Turkish deal represents just such an investment.

37.   These deals represent the inevitable result of the elimination over the last decade of the laws that restricted banks to a single state.

38.   This deal represents the third time that the Bank of Boston has been stood up at the altar in a major merger deal.

39.   This deal represents an effort to shift slightly the balance of power in the business in an effort to create a product that stands out from the clutter.

40.   As the parliament session started Tuesday, Djukanovc told Montenegrin lawmakers the deal represented only a transitional arrangement toward full independence.