On Sunday, about 100, 000 Indian spectators -- including a bevy of India's top celebrities and corporate bigwigs -- will pack into a stadium to watch two teams go at each other with everything they've got.
This is partly because marginals are the target of most pre-election effort: party bigwigs visit, activists campaign door-to-door, posters are pasted all over town.
Eurocrats often get on well with administration officials (another secret is that European bigwigs found the second-term Bush lot congenial to deal with).
Enrico Letta's new "grand coalition" government - a hybrid mixture of party bigwigs, technical experts, and an unusually high number of women ministers - has been sworn in at Rome's presidential palace and is expected to get an early confidence vote in parliament.
Carried interest is not the only concern weighing on the minds of private-equity bigwigs.
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An independent commission of pro-Turkey bigwigs, led by a former Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, will publish a progress report on September 7th.
Many Zanu-PF bigwigs were particularly concerned by Zimbabwe's international isolation.
And Mercedes and Rolls-Royces still ferry bigwigs imperiously through the traffic.
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The Treasury's Web site is full of easy-to-find links to testimony, speeches, reports, presentations and position papers endorsed by departmental bigwigs.
It is the only North America-based major memory manufacturer that competes against South Korean bigwigs like Samsung and Hynix.
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On Friday, a few weeks after they declared the project kaput, government bigwigs in Michigan stood together to announce that plans for the M1 light-rail in Detroit were back on.
So the bigwigs left it to more junior negotiators to present the result of their horse-trading to the world's grumpy, exhausted delegates.
Soon the bigwigs at headquarters were muttering about missing earnings projections for the second quarter of 1999--and blaming XcelleNet.
Until bigwigs in Brussels and Washington are ready to outface their cosseted farmers, Mr Zoellick's tariff-cutting plan will go nowhere.
In the 29-page complaint, which reads more like an indictment of Salomon than of the telco bigwigs, Spitzer specifically mentions Kevin McCaffrey Kevin McCaffrey , head of U.S. research, and John Hoffmann John Hoffmann , head of global research, and quotes their views on the quality and purpose of research recommendations.
Ms Tyson agrees: a business-school dean, she reckons, needs to be more nimble and responsive than other academic bigwigs.
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