1.   The last month almost spent on a series of farewell visits to the branches and his many business friends in Melbourne and Sydney.

2.   Cabinet members and business friends are bending ears and twisting arms of reluctant lawmakers.

3.   He made his move against the advice of his business friends.

4.   He would enlist everyone from business friends to Clinton to write letters to win orders.

5.   Henry Clay Frick built this Beaux-Arts pile to house his business friends when they came to town.

6.   Payne began by recruiting a few business friends.

7.   The business friends and contacts he depended on dried up.

8.   They say Boos has simply handed out a costly favor to his business friends and deprived the nation of an important source of income.

9.   But Mahathir has denied he is protecting business friends.

10.   Mahathir has repeatedly denied he is protecting business friends.