1.   He recently wrote a letter to a businessman friend asking why he could get nowhere with corporations.

2.   Three years ago, the monks considered starting a furniture venture but were dissuaded by a businessman friend.

3.   Weizman has admitted that he received an unspecified of money from a French businessman friend, but says it was just a gift.

4.   A businessman friend of Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years in prison earlier this month for illegal use of a fax machine.

5.   But he insisted he executed the signature to convince a businessman friend, Jaime Dichaves, to lend money to another friend, William Gatchalian.

6.   Two police helicopters being used to monitor traffic will be recalled for this purpose, backed by aircraft pledged by businessmen friends, he said.