1.   Because the Bulls were under the salary cap, they were free to make deals other teams could not consider.

2.   Stern made the deal because it made good business sense.

3.   That meant, among other things, keeping them from making any deal that gave real estate to the Vietminh.

4.   The two contracts are salary cap-friendly and the Celtics were very interested in making the deal a few days ago.

5.   They make quiet deals with corrupt politicians.

6.   It seems that the deal was made behind closed doors.

7.   It could abandon its isolation and make deals with other parties -- in which case it would contradict its own anti-party rhetoric and make itself indistinguishable from other parties.

8.   From here what deals were made.

9.   Almost simultaneously, the lords of major-league baseball were making another deal.

10.   Along the way, he bought and sold cattle, traded in land, made business deals and forged lifelong friendships.