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...fueled the buzz. Speechmaking so terrified Patrick that colleagues recall seeing his hands shake from across the chamber. But he was determined to win their respect--and their gratitude. When Patrick took over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1998, they all got to share in the fund-raising clout of the Kennedy name. Donors who gave the party $100,000 or more got a weekend at the family compound in Hyannis Port. And Patrick worked harder than anyone else ever had at the job, giving up his committee assignments, leaving leadership meetings early so he could go dial...
...Part of that cool, he will tell you, emanates from his success in myriad businesses. But others will claim that it is an image created as much by buying off and bullying the press. He's not shy about throwing his clout around, and that's caused critics and a sometimes-hostile press to label him an authoritarian. But in Thailand, being rich is considered a virtue, and being very rich is practically godly. Thaksin benefits from being one of the country's richest men, with a fortune estimated at more than $1.2 billion and interests in sectors ranging from...
...Colaninno looked as if he was making history when he launched his hostile takeover of Telecom, then the largest such deal in Europe. While not unknown in Italian business circles, he had neither the clout nor the name of the man he had replaced at Olivetti, Carlo De Benedetti. But with the help of Cuccia and the center-left government of Massimo D'Alema, which gave a green light to the takeover, Colaninno threw a wrench into Italian family-style capitalism. And in the process, he managed to step on the feet of De Benedetti and the Agnelli family...
...team anymore; it's lined up with Fiat in the Montedison bid. Cuccia's death at 92 a year ago - followed by a grotesque episode in which his corpse was stolen in a failed attempt to extract ransom - may have weakened the bank's backroom clout. Mediobanca managing director Vincenzo Maranghi, whatever his virtues, hasn't acquired his late boss's godlike mystique. Enter the French. In May, the state electric utility Electricité de France (EDF) picked up 20% of the shares in Montedison. That position seemed to constitute a serious challenge to Montedison's Mediobanca-approved management...
...Nevada where nuclear devices were once exploded. Yet they have been powerless to block the project. Nevada has long been the Federal Government's atomic playground (928 nuclear bombs were detonated at the Nevada Test Site from 1951 to 1992), and the state's politicians haven't had any clout in Washington...