1.   Also, he was not happy about Chavez naming political associates to high-level positions at the state-run oil company.

2.   A high-spirited woman with an engaging manner, Dr. Lansing made a powerful impact on at least one political associate.

3.   Clinton tended not to put close political associates on the board.

4.   Each new revelation of how President Clinton and his political associates raised political donations has brought denunciations that their activities were unseemly, or even unethical.

5.   He became the first Likud Party minister ever to meet officially with a man his political associates have long denounced as a terrorist bent on destroying the Jewish state.

6.   He acknowledged, however, that he began drinking at a lunch early that afternoon with two political associates whom he declined to identify.

7.   He became very selective in seeing visitors, preferring to spend time with his brother and sister and a few old friends and political associates.

8.   His longtime political associate, Steve Hanser, a history professor in Georgia, said Gopac would soon change its name because of the recent negative publicity.

9.   In the Whitewater investigation, nine officials and business executives, including some political associates of the Clintons, have pleaded guilty to a variety of abuses.

10.   It has arrested men believed to be his political associates.