1.   Darren Adams, who owns a hobby shop in suburban Federal Way, knows his recent business coup will be scrutinized from several perspectives.

2.   He works on his business coups with a small, close-knit team of advisers, including Lazard partner Jean-Claude Haas.

3.   It also represents another business coup for WorldCom Inc., a once-obscure Mississippi telephone company that has become a world-class Internet provider in just five years.

4.   Kotkin agreed that the mayor has failed at the politics side of the ledger even while he has succeeded in scoring many business coups.

5.   The new investment is a major business coup for Thailand, which has been suffering its worst economic crisis in modern times.

6.   For Boeing, the GECAS order represents its latest business coup this month, apparently to the detriment of Airbus.