41.   Another Republican eating club, known as the John Quincy Adams Group, offers business executives monthly dinners with influential lawmakers.

42.   Army surplus stores now count business executives and housewives among their best customers.

43.   As a candidate, the former business executive promised economic growth with heavy investment in jobs, education and public works.

44.   As business executives and politicians return from their annual networking session at this Swiss Alpine resort, they have made it clear EMU weighs heaviest on their minds.

45.   As e-commerce -- especially business-to-business dealing -- continues its explosive growth, these questions worry more and more business executives.

46.   As Alan Greenspan testifies in Congress Thursday, nervous investors and business executives will be looking for any hint of future Federal Reserve policy.

47.   As Saturday draws closer, the belief among politicians and business executives that there will be a strike appears to be increasing.

48.   As they did four years ago, many Republicans question whether a bland business executive who has never been elected to anything can capture the nomination.

49.   Asked by Bruce Manke, a business executive, about the future of Social Security, Lugar offered a straight answer.

50.   At one point, federal officials asked business executives to design the code themselves.