1.   The perfect hit, the literary equivalent to a high-Octane power lunch.

2.   As more businesswomen fly to conferences, rent cars, check into hotels and have power lunches, the travel industry is starting to address their problems.

3.   Busy entrepreneurs and venture capitalists may not have time for power lunches and often still are working long after happy hours wind down.

4.   Forget the power lunch.

5.   He avoids power lunches.

6.   Lee Caraher, president of the San Francisco online firm Red Whistle Communications, has abandoned power lunches.

7.   Many people say the time of the power lunch is past, that people are too busy to have lunch outside the office.

8.   Others with high-pressure New York careers have substituted noon-time power outings for power lunches.

9.   Secretary General Kofi Annan had an answer today as he lifted his glass to the biggest power lunch in history.

10.   Secretary-General Kofi Annan had an answer Wednesday as he lifted his glass to the biggest power lunch in history.