31.   This is to expand business alliances and to strengthen the company during the economic crisis.

32.   What possible reason does the U.S. have for expanding an alliance that no longer has a legitimate reason for existence?

33.   While the debate over expanding the alliance was on the agenda, Cohen and his fellow defense chiefs began by talking about relations with Russia and regional European security.

34.   Yeltsin adamantly opposes NATO incorporating any former Soviet republics or Warsaw Pact allies, claiming that expanding the alliance would cement a new division of Europe.

35.   ASEAN leaders hope to expand the alliance in the future to include Burma, Cambodia and Laos.

36.   Madrid is hosting a landmark NATO summit in July that is expected to expand the alliance eastward and adopt changes in its command structures.

37.   Moscow bitterly complained that NATO was locked in a Cold War mentality, still working to contain Russia by expanding the alliance closer to its borders.

38.   NATO foreign ministers on Thursday agreed to begin expanding the alliance to embrace former Warsaw Pact countries in central and eastern Europe, despite Russian opposition.

39.   NATO foreign ministers agreed Thursday to begin the process of expanding the alliance to embrace former Warsaw Pact countries in central and eastern Europe.

40.   Perry said that Poland was a key member of the Partnership for Peace program, created to include former Warsaw Pact nations in NATO without actually expanding the alliance.