11.   But for anybody who has followed the Olympic Games even in passing, watching the barrage of images is like renewing old friendships.

12.   But relationship experts say rekindling old friendships is as easy as a placing a phone call or sending an e-mail.

13.   But old friendships blossom anew with a little help from the liquor cabinet, and soon the party is in full swing.

14.   But when they are together again, it is as if they are resuming an old friendship.

15.   But when you ask him about how the hog farm issue has hurt old friendships, his manner changes.

16.   He was excited about his new broadcast journalism career and being back in his home state where he could solidify old friendships.

17.   In balmy weather, they flock to parks and playgrounds, renewing old friendships and making new ones.

18.   In it, the middle-aged Bobby Gould returns to his Chicago hometown to excavate old friendships and old loves while attempting to chart a new future.

19.   In some corners of the neighborhood, old friendships still endure between Arabs and Jews.

20.   Indeed, pitting a small drama about past lives and secrets and old friendships heightens the sadness and insanity of the conflict.