41.   Family relations and close friendships mean more in Afghanistan than political affiliation.

42.   For Summitt, putting a close friendship aside for one night is not a new experience.

43.   He also enjoys several close friendships with his generational counterparts in the royal families of the Persian Gulf states, relationships that may already be delivering dividends for Jordan.

44.   He and Kennedy had developed a close friendship, and Frankenheimer had spent a good part of that year traveling with the presidential candidate on the campaign trail.

45.   Grace Alfredo, an account executive for FCA Communications in Pennsylvania, has had two close friendships with men.

46.   He dismissed suggestions that his close friendship with Clinton will preclude a close working relationship with Bush.

47.   He enjoys a close friendship with Ms. Smith.

48.   He also has developed a close friendship with George Brett, another player who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this weekend.

49.   He could be expected to back more expansionary monetary policy, and therefore to encounter congressional resistence to his confirmation, despite his close friendship with Greenspan.

50.   He developed several close friendships with Israeli Jews.