Vettel had hoped his achievement in securing pole position in Saturday's rescheduled qualifying session would help his quest for a fourth successive title get off to the perfect start.
Since ousting the previous chairman, Rudolf Scharping, in a brilliantly executed coup in 1995, he has imposed his will on one party body after another, ruthlessly securing his position much as Mr Kohl has done in his party.
Meanwhile, Verizon has bolstered its spectrum position by securing all the approvals it needed to acquire a swathe of AWS spectrum from the cable companies.
But when the economic crisis dimmed the now-graduate's prospects of securing a full-time position with a firm, he turned to another passion: entrepreneurship.
At worst, it would be permanently compromising its principled position -- and its most important leverage for securing a return of its stolen property.
The holder start in a locked vertical position, and to attach a lens you just bayonet it into place, securing the glass and allowing the holder to be lowered.