The Mets invited three players to spring training yesterday, all with previous ties to the team.

A lot of opportunities emerging from our previous ties with India were lost.

"This game has seemed to caught the imagination of our fans, arguably in a way that the previous ties haven't done so much," said Scholes.

The baseball writers had no previous tie to the veterans committee.

Each school's first head coach has previous ties to Don Shula.

He is the first president since 1822 to come to Dartmouth without previous ties to the college.

He has few previous ties to the administration, which is known for being centralized.

The flight of the drow into the Underdark took everybody by surprise, as they had no previous ties there.

It is time for the Wal-Mart board to bring in an outside investigator, one without previous ties to the company.

He didn't like to think of his previous three-way tie, and how it had ended.