1.   The program has gained the support of several influential businessmen.

2.   As a way of sticking a finger in the winds of downtown, The Star conducted an informal survey of influential businessmen and businesswomen located downtown.

3.   For the last month, Milosevic listened as Karic and other influential Serb businessmen argued that the battered Yugoslav economy could take no more.

4.   Jean-Marc Vernes, an influential French businessman and the founder and chairman of Banque Vernes, died in Paris.

5.   Miller Nichols, former chairman of the J.C. Nichols Co. and one of the most influential businessmen in Kansas City, died early Wednesday.

6.   One name that has emerged in both the jury tampering and drug smuggling cases is that of Charles Miller, an influential local businessman.

7.   Bodyguards and reporters outnumbered the demonstrators, an elite group of some of the nations biggest, most influential businessmen.

8.   But other influential businessmen are still on the scene.

9.   He is the son of influential businessman Chatchawal Kong-udom.

10.   Influential businessmen and politicians are the main patrons of the sport.