1.   Alan Simpson stood before a business group and offered a lofty definition of politics.

2.   All those business groups were major financial backers of Johnson and stood to profit by his move into the White House.

3.   But many business groups and some unions would welcome the ability to tap a large pool of legal workers.

4.   Employers and business groups contend that a higher minimum wage would saddle them with higher labor costs.

5.   Managers can gauge the clarity of focus in a business development group by carrying out a simple exercise.

6.   The best business development groups take further steps to capture and reuse lessons learned from experience.

7.   The business group will seek legislation allowing local governments to tax for specific purposes only.

8.   The Conference Board, a New York-based business research group, held a major diversity conference this spring.

9.   The new import laws have provoked furious complaints from business groups.

10.   The strongest opponents are business groups.