71.   His alliances are clearly with Leno rival David Letterman, the protege on whose CBS show Carson made a pair of cameos last year.

72.   His foreign alliances have been just as intricate.

73.   However, the alliance is not exclusive, Gates said.

74.   HP has had its foot in this business for two years, but the CellNet alliance will be a big boost, he added.

75.   If mergers are a marriage, then alliances are more like going steady.

76.   If there is any durable alliance that can set the rules of the new century, this is it.

77.   If the super alliance were in place this season, Florida State would be playing Arizona State in an intriguing national-championship game.

78.   In a forceful rebuttal to U.N. spokesmen, Claes publicly rejected assertions that the Western alliance was afraid to carry out air strikes against the Bosnian Serbs.

79.   In contrast, the Jini-HAVI alliance is a radical decentralized approach to computing in which control is spread throughout a network with no central point.

80.   In fact, the Kmart alliance was not altogether smooth.