11.   The appeal by the Austrian Association of Industrialists, an influential business group representing most large Austrian companies, came as political leaders resumed budget negotiations.

12.   The Giuliani administration and some influential business leaders have continued to push for merit pay as a way of improving instruction.

13.   The route also avoided stretches of Broadway and Grand Boulevard, where merchants and influential business owners had not wanted rail.

14.   Their numbers may be small, but they tend to include a disproportionate number of influential business people.

15.   Yet at least one influential business leader predicts the country will respond.

16.   -- An influential business leader harshly criticized France for conducting a nuclear test at Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific.

17.   Ambroise Roux, an influential business leader who was a close advisor to the late president Georges Pompidou, has died.

18.   Blacks hold positions of political power and some are influential business leaders.

19.   Better known as Tutut, Hardiyanti is a Golkar leader and an influential business tycoon.

20.   But critics were fierce, including the influential business lobby, COPARMEX, a grouping of powerful executives normally allied with the ruling party.