1.   Many big Western arms manufacturers have whole departments devoted to arranging barter deals.

2.   These are firms which arrange deals between the marketmakers themselves and allow them to unwind positions which they might have otherwise found difficult.

3.   The relevant investment activities include dealing, arranging deals, managing investments and giving investment advice.

4.   This status exempts it from the need to obtain full FSA authorisation, but only while its FSA-regulated business is limited to arranging deals in investments.

5.   SFA or SIB membership has the advantage of not being limited to arranging deals, but of covering all potential investment business activities.

6.   A probable solution is to arrange the deal as a sale of assets, rather than as a merger or full acquisition, the people involved said.

7.   Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer said the president-elect had played no role in arranging the deal.

8.   But authorities say they ferreted him out over the last nine months after they used a tap on his phone to listen in on Ricci arranging drug deals.

9.   But those who arranged the deal dispute that point, too.

10.   But without the buying power of the larger grocery chains it could not arrange competitive deals from suppliers.