Of course, there have always been those who dispute the very idea that the commission might be a friend of big business.
Today, I am very much the entrepreneur and my friend has a successful corporate career.
The full-size keyboard built right into the cover makes work easy, the very smart kickstand makes watching a movie or Skyping a friend a delight, the less than a pound-and-a-half weight makes a great alternative to a laptop, and the many other features make it fun for work and play.
His dad was a very good friend of our dad's and was one of the very first franchisees, so there's a lot of history.
"Everyone at Dundee United is devastated by the loss of someone who was not only our chairman but also a very close and inspirational friend, " said a statement on the club website.
So from that point of view, Ireland will continue to be a very strong and loyal friend of the United States and we will work with the authorities and the political process to the benefit of both countries.
The second is the strikingly different outcome arrived at because Virginia Woolf restrained herself from dispatching her first, intemperate draft reply and carefully modified it so as not to hurt the feelings of the young man - a family friend, very much younger and less experienced than herself.
Before I get accused of living offline in the last century, the area I think social product opinions can work very well is in the difficult art of selecting a gift for a friend, family member or colleague.
With Damon playing the Southie working-class friend and Affleck as the math genius, Good Will Hunting becomes a very different picture.
David Lawrence, from the Nomadic Preservation Society, was a friend of Miss Dean and said he was "very sad" to hear the news.
You know it was very funny when I showed the script to my friend.
One of them is Arlene Castro, the suspect's daughter and once a very good friend of DeJesus.
My friend William of Atlanta felt guilty at the very thought of having his dog, Jerome, euthanized -- even as he watched his faithful companion of 12 years endure a dramatic, two-year decline.
On the other hand, I use Facebook very sparingly and I only friend those people who I really know.
At this point and at the very least, Gates needs to step in and ask his friend of many years to step down.
Karen is my mentor, colleague and very good friend. (And she is the founder and director of the Financial Recovery Institute.) She is the one who inspired me to become a money coach.
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The very talented author of these articles (full disclosure, a friend) is also on this Web-stored NPR show, hinting at his future pieces concerning electronic life and the development of the prefrontal cortex.
"Brad has become a good friend of mine over the years and this is very sad news for all of us at the ATP and the entire tennis community, " the 17-time major winner said in a statement.
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So I've appointed a special envoy, a Major General Scott Gration, a very close friend of mine, was one of the top fighter pilots in our military, in our Armed Forces, and somebody who's also an expert on development issues.
Once you bring forces close together in face-to-face trench line, house-to-house fighting, it negates the use of much air support, especially as both sides have a lot of the same gear and it's very difficult to tell between friend and foe.
Over the weekend, I went to visit a friend who lives in a VERY posh suburb of Harare.
Another witness, a friend of Ms Hyndman, however, described the couple as very much in love, with a strong relationship.
For example (very minor spoilers), early on in the game you run into your friend Sam, who has been found by an old island native, Mattias.
"If the wok stays hot and the food is fresh there's very little chance of bacteria, " my friend Joann Khaw, a local walking tour guide, told me.
As Ms. Currie told the FBI during her very first interview in January 1998, Ms. Lewinsky was a friend.
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Mr. Freeman, still very married, asked the father of the woman celebrating her anniversary, an old friend, for more information about Ms. Reist.
The seeming dissonance of money and progressive politics is captured by a friend of mine, a very successful entertainment lawyer.
As a close friend and ally, the United States stands with Poland and Poles everywhere in these very difficult days.
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When I first told a very classy, sophisticated friend from San Francisco, with a budget to buy from the runway if she wanted to, that I was headed to Polk Street to go shopping, she was beyond horrified.
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My friend and competitor Jessi Hempel has a very detailed and positive story on IBM in the latest copy of Fortune .
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