Of course, there have always been those who dispute the very idea that the commission might be a friend of big business.
Her big break came when a friend offered to off-load her not-for-profit audits.
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But it could worry those Latin Americans who want to live with their big northern neighbour as a friend, not a boss.
And then there's The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend, about two friends, one for whom things come easily and another for whom nothing does.
An old producer friend greeted me with a big hug, we zipped up the stairs of the Sheraton to find a wonderful motley crew of network producers, correspondents and engineers awaiting our arrival.
To make matters more confusing, Brendan O'Carroll's real-life wife plays his TV daughter, his TV son's wife is acted by his daughter, and his big sister is his neighbour and best friend in his sitcom.
"Whoever Andrew works with becomes a big part of his life, " says his friend Kenneth Cole.
"Here it is, the big moment - the new Doctor, and his new best friend, " said Stephen.
It was there that his friend Philly Joe Jones helped Holland get his first big gig.
Pettitte's reluctant testimony against his friend changes the dynamic of the case in a big way, legal experts say.
Her big break came in 1947, when she went to give a friend moral support at an audition, only to be dragged onto the stage herself, where she performed for music hall star Joyce Grenfell.
They are a big step toward using genomic information to make drugs, which brings Stephen Friend even closer to seeing his revolutionary dreams come true.
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So he has been a dear friend, and I want you all to give him a big round of applause and welcome him to the podium.
But one allegation is that Mr Miquilena has steered government contracts to an old friend and business partner, Tobias Carrero, who owns a big insurance company.
"I just didn't want anyone picking on him and if you have friend who will stand up for you, it makes a big difference, " Norton said.
But when cell phones hit it big, the world no longer needed a device that beeped whenever your best friend needed to chat.
We're sure there are more than a few super-sized rear-projection TVs that will continue to bring the big game to basements and dens everywhere, feel free to celebrate an old friend in the comments below.
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It was a big step away from pure, basic research, sniffed some dons, but Friend argued it was the best way to drive his technology to market and fund improvements in the basic science along the way.
When the two women win big on bingo they decide to head for Las Vegas, where they make an unlikely friend in a cowboy played by Kris Kristofferson.
His friend and co-Web master Jason Fernandez, 22, is equally dismissive of the big boys.
Even supposing it is not a step too far for the firm, Millennium may find that big pharmaceutical companies start to perceive that a chemical engineer can be more of a rival than a friend.
When my friend lets fly what she deems a particularly droll bon mot and it fails to get a big laugh from the room, she immediately tweets it out.
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But the Impressions, including Butler's childhood friend Curtis Mayfield, took umbrage at the billing, and they soon disbanded, only to surface big-time later at Motown Records.
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