1.   In many cities prominent businessmen encouraged and financed city centre improvements.

2.   American officials, however, have fingered prominent Saudi businessmen for financing suspect charities.

3.   And some prominent businessmen are throwing their influence behind the effort.

4.   And the Meridien President in Bangkok is owned by a former deputy prime minister and prominent businessman, Chalermphan Srivikorn.

5.   At least four prominent Hutu businessmen were kidnapped in Goma over the last six weeks.

6.   A trial date has not yet been set for the six men, who include a former bank manager and a prominent businessman.

7.   Albert Bredt was a prominent businessman, church elder and fur trader.

8.   Brenda Sexton, an executive at a large Chicago company, and her fiance, a prominent businessman there, recently postponed their wedding, perhaps indefinitely.

9.   Both come from families that have long been tied to the Salinases, and both are prominent businessmen whose enterprises received lavish support during the presidency of Carlos Salinas.

10.   Communist and ultranationalist politicians often point to the success of several prominent businessmen and politicians with Jewish origins in what they say is a larger conspiracy to destroy Russia.