One associate of the owner suggested several possibilities for what the commissioner perceived to be Steinbrenner's latest maneuver.

An associate at the bank suggested he apply for membership in a nearby country club, he said.

Ian Deary and associates suggest that a greater overlap of these techniques will reveal new findings.

Your medical associate suggested that I might die of cardiac arrhythmia before it went that far.

The symptoms were particularly painful in Mr. Hart over the past seven months, friends and associates suggested.

Wounded political vanity explains some of Mr. Mubarak's actions, close associates suggested today.

In fact, former associates of Mr. Kahn suggested that the real reason for his departure was more complicated.

But friends and associates who would not comment in detail on the reason for Mr. Nguyen's suicide all suggested a political motive.

But Assange's disillusioned associates suggest that the failure to expose "informants" niggled in his mind.

But associates suggest that he is worth $7 million to $9 million.