1.   The deals also illustrate businesses growing demand for products to help track accounting, manufacturing and human resource tasks with computer software.

2.   Fleet officials said the Kmart deal illustrates how the market uncertainty in Massachusetts is curbing the construction of new ATMs in the state.

3.   The deal also illustrates the unusual influence wielded by bank chief executives when it comes to merger negotiations.

4.   The deal illustrates how consolidation in the telecommunications industry, and in wireless communications in particular, is picking up speed.

5.   The deal illustrates a recent trend by wireless operators to contract the building and even operation of their networks.

6.   The deal illustrates that the forces driving consolidation in telecommunications are affecting makers of arcane equipment as well as the companies that actually sell services to consumers.

7.   The deal also illustrates how the once-humdrum business necessities of inventory control, distribution and delivery have become crucial elements in corporate efforts to achieve an advantage.

8.   The deal illustrates the quandary plaguing almost all programs intended to foster minority-owned companies.

9.   The deal also illustrates just how fast conditions have changed and how rival developers are battling to buy potentially lucrative properties while the market is hot.