11.   It has also been hailed by business development associations, and a wide array of merchants and businesses.

12.   Its members include public-health officials, private health-care and hosptial administrators, physicians, and representatives of business associations.

13.   Many business associations will soon find they need full-time lobbyists to handle the job the association president used to do part time.

14.   Locally and nationally, Hispanic organizations are linking with colleges and universities, community groups and business associations to improve Hispanic access to post-secondary education.

15.   Lucero, president of a Mexican business association in New York called Casa Puebla, was the first to sign on to the cause.

16.   One was a recent invitation to join a local small business association.

17.   Representatives of the banks and several business associations said that after this vigorous rewrite, the language of the final bankruptcy law was fair to both creditors and lenders.

18.   Several of the leaders of Colombian business associations were present, including the heads of the small business association, the banking association and the agriculture group.

19.   She was repeatedly dogged by questions about her past business associations and her political fund-raising activities in the White House.

20.   That meant hours spent with bureaucrats as well as high-ranking officials, and trips to campuses and business associations all over America.