21.   He was freed eight months later with the help of influential friends in Washington, including economist John K. Galbraith and the late Sen. Hubert Humphrey.

22.   Microsoft and its supporters have been sending letters and having influential friends call to try to persuade the holdouts to drop the suit.

23.   She told them she would have her influential friends in Congress, including South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond, pass private bills that would make them permanent U.S. residents.

24.   The two plaintiffs claimed that Switzer called influential friends to try to have Bolton fired.

25.   Miandad has influential friends as well, however.