1.   According to the company, these deals had been in the offing for some time.

2.   But the deal is most striking in the way it reshapes Raytheon, based in Lexington, Mass.

3.   But the three veteran big men could be attractive to other teams precisely because their deals are up.

4.   But winning new sponsorship deals can be extremely time consuming and frustrating for the organisers.

5.   Case said these seemingly contradictory deals were simple exercises in economic balance of power.

6.   City analysts and financial advisers said the company would have a tough job convincing people that the deal was workable.

7.   For example second-hand car deals are usually contracts for the sale of specific goods.

8.   Goldhawk has discovered that Ansbacher would not guarantee the loan notes until the Telecom deal was certain.

9.   Investors had convinced themselves in the late fall that a budget deal was in the cards.

10.   Myers called me yesterday to tell me that the deal was off.