1.   In countries like Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, cozy ties with governments sheltered them from market forces.

2.   Koreans had long chalked up the roaring growth of the last three decades to state-directed capitalism that featured cozy ties among government, banks, and chaebol.

3.   Opposition leaders in both Thailand and South Korea have come to power recently vowing to sever the cozy ties between government and business that have formed under military rule.

4.   The Enron case has highlighted the cozy ties between the energy industry and the Bush administration.

5.   Over the next four years, Japan plans to scrap regulations that have fostered cozy ties between banks, brokers and insurance companies.

6.   Prisa claims the ruling conservative Popular Party is trying to punish the media group for its cozy ties with former Socialist Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

7.   But the big businesses got even bigger through cozy ties with the government, a relationship cemented by bribes and political favors.

8.   Cecchi Gori has dismissed cozy ties with Dini, who is in Bangkok for a European-Asian summit.

9.   Cozy ties between member firms.

10.   Japan has been rocked recently by a series of scandals involving cozy ties between government officials and businesses.