"What we're trying to do is concentrate on the current needs of about 1,000 corporate relationships across America," he said in a telephone interview.

A. From friends, family, neighbors and corporate relationships.

Like Japanese banks, they lent money based on corporate relationships rather than on risk and return.

It is easy for even the partners to slip into the parlance of love affairs when discussing their corporate relationships.

We call those food-certification programs or corporate relationships.

Another is the disclosure to investor clients of detailed information about corporate relationships, including dollar amounts of fees.

Scott Murray is a leading expert in the contact center and technology industry with deep corporate and financial relationships.

He also noted that "this is part of a chess game where things are clearing up in terms of corporate relationships."

But conflicts in this growing part of the field are not limited to corporate relationships.

For Eckerd, the proposed deal would tighten its already close corporate relationship with Revco.