41.   Masco is besting competitors by forging close ties with suppliers as well as retailers, analysts said.

42.   Nonetheless, he has been able to forge warmer ties with other Republicans.

43.   On that occasion, he forged close ties with Enrico Cuccia, former chairman of the powerful Mediobanca SpA investment bank, the Italian equivalent of Lazard.

44.   Organizers are hoping that one effect of the project will be to forge closer ties between adults and young people.

45.   Other administration officials, who declined to be identified, did say that Clinton would forge ties with Hanoi tomorrow.

46.   Pending lawsuits and announced settlements have forged suspicious ties between doctors and lawyers and led to diagnoses and therapies that are widely viewed as bordering on quackery.

47.   Resisting pressure to forge closer ties with mainland China, President Lee Teng-hui says he is seeking to break out of the isolation imposed by Beijing.

48.   Several of the people involved had met there, forging ties that would be cemented in Afghan camps.

49.   She also forged close ties to Hindery even before he joined TCI last year.

50.   Similar ties were being forged with various militant groups based in Pakistan, who were recruiting young Muslim men to join them.