31.   It also has an alliance with The Walt Disney Co. to provide entertainment over telephone lines.

32.   Many of those lawmakers have alliances to unions but have begun to change their positions.

33.   MCI Communications, which has an alliance with News Corp., will return on Thursday along with the one remaining bidder, Echostar Communications Corp. of Englewood, Colo.

34.   NBC has alliances in Britain with ITN, in Germany with ZDF and in Japan with Nippon TV.

35.   Now it has important alliances with AOL and has shifted much of its business to the Net.

36.   Now they have alliances in content area, much of which is video, which they have to deliver to consumers.

37.   Sally Stapleford, a British citizen who is the daughter of the famous Canadian hockey player Red Stapleford, has several alliances with Canadian figure skating.

38.   Sandpiper also has alliances with Inktomi, RealNetworks and Sun Microsystems, Yara said.

39.   Several other banks have forged alliances with brokerages.

40.   Should the dispute continue, however, the Japanese shipping lines could decide to move their cargo with other foreign carriers with whom they have alliances, they said.