61.   Finally, the NATO alliance has been built on a concept of shared risk that is inconsistent with a total withdrawal of American ground forces from Balkan peacekeeping.

62.   First, the Japan-U.S. security alliance would be strengthened, modernized and improved.

63.   For months, the alliance has been teaching observers about the electoral process, their role in it, and the nitty-gritty details of balloting.

64.   For Microsoft, the alliance is a way of gaining access to corporate accounts.

65.   For now, the two joint prime ministers have reached a standoff, but a Western diplomat said the old rivalries and alliances are likely to produce continuing confrontations.

66.   Golub asking Citicorp to bail him out was just the latest sign he thinks alliances are the best way for the company to go.

67.   Gloria Bergquist, the spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said that the alliance had not been in touch with the panel.

68.   Had the super alliance been in place this season, Nebraska and Michigan would have settled the championship argument on the field.

69.   He stopped short, however, of endorsing a foreign presence in that force, suggesting the alliance might be uneasy with the option.

70.   He said the existing alliances have been consistently unable to provide his company with reliable, affordable phone service outside major financial centers like London and Frankfurt.