11.   Press reports have said it was cozy ties with favored clients that helped land Yamaichi in trouble.

12.   Shadowy Mafia figures were the first to claim they enjoyed cozy ties with ex-Premier Giulio Andreotti.

13.   The changes involve scrapping regulations over the next four years which have fostered cozy ties between banks, brokers and insurance companies.

14.   They were an unusual admission of wrongdoing by a ministry increasingly under fire for its cozy ties with the companies it regulates.

15.   Typical of South Korean conglomerates, or chaebol, analysts say Samsung has engaged in its share of questionable dealings and used cozy ties with politicians to its benefit.

16.   Under past governments, South Korean businessmen maintained cozy ties with government officials and politicians and frequently used bribes to get preferential loans from government-controlled banks.

17.   Kan is renowned for battling the health ministry bureaucracy and last year uncovered an AIDS scandal highlighting the cozy ties between government officials and the Japanese pharmaceutical industry.

18.   The draft concluded that the cozy ties among lawmakers from rural constituencies, the farm ministry and farmers compromised BSE-related inspections at farms.