71.   Santander has also forged an alliance with the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, which has a small stake in Santander.

72.   Rep.-elect Ellen Tauscher, D-Tassajara Valley, lands committee assignment and forges political alliances on Capitol Hill.

73.   She might spread rumors, try to forge alliances with other employees against you, undermine your work or act surly when you have to deal with her.

74.   She was profiled on CBS News, quoted by Washington, D.C., columnists and forged an alliance with Ross Perot.

75.   Since then, its rivals have begun to expand by buying single hotels, forging marketing alliances and signing franchising agreements.

76.   Skibbe says her company has overcome the isolation problem here by forging alliances with other companies.

77.   Still, Chernomyrdin is in a position to help other candidates and forge alliances with stronger politicians.

78.   Some food rivals are even forging alliances in the low-fat field.

79.   Still, no company can do everything, so IBM plans to forge alliances with many of those same companies.

80.   Sometimes companies forging an alliance start off on the wrong foot.