FN: come to an agreement, result in some course of action. NOTE: this LU has a limited number of collocates that may occur with the verb (e.g. 'a deal', 'an agreement', ' an alliance', 'a balance', 'an accord', etc.) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act ( HIPAA ) begins to address this area , [ 53 ] but has many problems which will need to be resolved , specifically concerning the nature of the boundaries regarding what is permissible and what is not ; if interpreted broadly , HIPAA could make clinical research nearly impossible [ 47 ] . More legislation will be needed to strike an effective balance .But what will become of The New Yorker ? During Tina 's tenure , the magazine 's editors were always talking about `` the mix '' -- the never-ending struggle to strike the right balance between the slashy and the serious .Israel 's new prime minister and Yasser Arafat struck a tentative deal on a Palestinian state .Ehud Barak pledged to strike peace deals with Syria and the Palestinians within 15 months .He wrote that the crown prince , the effective ruler of Saudi Arabia , could have met secretly with Israeli officials , as Clinton asked , and struck deals with them behind closed doors , subsequently to denounce Israel in the strongest terms , as many Arab leaders did .Beyond weighing how a proposal would affect the federal budget and the economy , policymakers need to consider the balance struck between the twin goals of income adequacy ( level and certainty of benefits ) and individual equity ( rates of return on individual contributions ) .Even though a spokesman traveling with President Clinton in California does tell the NYT that there are still `` significant issues '' to be resolved , and the Wall Street Journal cautions that `` Those involved in the talks.describe the emerging deal as fragile and caution it could easily collapse , '' the general view in the papers is that substantial progress has been made and that an actual deal could be struck between the President , the House and the Senate as early as today , with final passage coming by Friday .But I only need to use your examples as proof that what the Internet has wrought in an unbelievably short time has been profound -- the entire computer industry ( as evidenced by Michael Dell 's success ) has been turned on its ear , the retail industry is reeling ( did you see the many news stories today about Nordstrom 's striking a deal with a well-known Silicon Valley venture firm to jumpstart its Web efforts ? ) , and traditional media companies are in full-scale alert .Still , Chatterbox does n't really think a ritual sacrifice will address the basic underlying problem : When media outlets strike secret business deals with other businesses , readers are unable to evaluate whether these deals might be compromising news coverage .. When he struck a deal last week to repay some but not all of the United States' U.N. debts , senators on both sides hailed his compromise .