He's going to tell businessmen in Riyadh that such investment is vital to create and secure UK jobs.

He likes to tell businessmen that those who get in first get the best pickings.

I told the bankers and businessmen we have done everything Gorbachev refused to do - free markets, supply and demand, Polish shock therapy.

We're telling American businessmen that now is the time to come into the southeast.

He's been telling businessmen and women that Britain's prosperity depends on their export success.

Attention has turned away from the national work force to their managers, as Mrs Thatcher's told British businessmen; they're earning too much.

"We have been producing and exporting oil for more than 100 years," Mr. Chávez told Chinese businessmen in December.

In contrast with the Alaskan, Smith told several businessmen he would make amends.

Moreover, he says, it is contrary to the principles of a free society to tell private businessmen whom they must put on their corporate boards.

NOT so long ago, it was bankers who were telling businessmen what to do.