Its range of expertise may make it especially attractive to potential business allies.

An ordinance to ban smoking in restaurants, opposed by the mayor and his business allies, passed in December.

And the companies lag behind their more experienced big business allies.

Gazzam also had some business allies acquire a major stake in the Hansen company.

To banish a child, means perjury of business allies.

On some issues, including those that affect the insurance industry, he has been much more of a business ally than Mr. Gore.

For others, it will be a fair test of willingness by the Bush administration and its business allies to exercise creative leadership on the global scene.

But Republican senators and their business allies insisted that the regulations were onerous and overbroad.

That Harrell could be a new business ally had been an added plus.

The planters and their business allies dominated the self-styled "conservative" coalition that finally took control in the South.