1.   The storage and retrieval system at the heart of LIFESPAN does not have any direct dealings with actual users.

2.   Bankers who have had direct dealings with Khodorkovsky said that he used Menatep and Yukos to wangle cash out of smaller companies in which Menatep had big equity stakes.

3.   He said he had no direct dealings with the American consultants, and was only dimly aware of their existence during the campaign.

4.   He puts forward a somewhat vague proposal to encourage direct dealings between plaintiff and defendant that would avoid trials and heavy legal fees.

5.   Lacking direct dealings with consumers, EDS had few chances to tell everyone that it was no longer a Perot company.

6.   Sources said Barnett had no direct dealings with Brown, but met Hill through a relative of a business associate connected to WUNI.

7.   Those claims were misrepresentations, but Messinger did engage in direct dealings with the CIA over a drone design, prosecutors say.

8.   Through discovery processes and in direct dealings with court officials, they have gotten access to documents that shed some light on the fund.

9.   Pyongyang has persistently demanded that it has direct dealings with the United States to discuss replacing the armistice agreement with a peace treaty excluding South Korea.

10.   And it has taken a pause in direct dealings with communist North Korea, prompting the North Koreans to threaten to pull out of missile and nuclear restraint agreements.