When the country stabilized, the Slims were a clan of considerable wealth.
In theory, things should have worked out better, as he had a clan of fellow Scots, George Graham, Bob Wilson and Frank McLintock, for company.
That nearly matched the weight of the small clan of big, mostly local shareholders that in effect control Telecom Italia with only 22.5% of its shares.
One of the families benefiting from the foreign trade system was the Asgaroladis, an old Jewish clan of bazaar traders, who converted to Islam several generations ago.
The clan of blue-skinned dwarves, who stand three-apples high, have since soared in popularity, appearing in countless comic books, an United Nations humanitarian campaign and a major motion picture.
Separation is the new reality for the Gatti family, a clan of several generations that shared the same three-story home near the ocean on Staten Island until Sandy destroyed it.
The NBC mockumentary about a clan of quirky cubicle-dwellers at the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Co. wraps up May 16 after nine seasons, and a crowd estimated at 10, 000 attended a "Wrap Party" in Scranton to show their appreciation.
In the late Heian era (893-1185), when the book is set, the ruling Fujiwara clan of upper-class commoners (to which Murasaki belonged) would send their daughters to court at Kyoto, hoping that one would give birth to a crown prince and ensure their control of the imperial power.
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An example is the political clan accused of the killings in Maguindanao.
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The duplex on Hunt Street(ph) hummed with the energy of an 11-member Cuban clan every day of those 37 years.
Obama believed that hiring Larry Summers and Tim Geithner to rein in Wall Street was equivalent to FDR putting Joseph Kennedy, the swashbuckling scion of the Kennedy clan, in charge of the SEC in 1933.
Rebels of the Houthi clan hold sway in much of the north, around Saada, while a secessionist movement has gained momentum in the south.
But unlike members of the Kennedy clan, Capuano who is of Irish-Italian lineage brings to the House a pragmatic, blue-collar progressivism, a byproduct of his long mayoral tenure in working-class Somerville.
The more recent evolution of the Wu-Tang Clan is also true of the best business teams.
It took "dozens" of meetings with government officials, clan leaders and neighbors of the properties.
Only David Rockefeller of that clan has created more wealth through the development of Rockefeller Center and the success of the Chase Bank, now part of JP Morgan Chase.
At least 100 members of the clan, who call themselves the Royal Army of Sulu, arrived in Lahad Datu by boat just over two weeks ago, demanding recognition from the Malaysian government.
Save the Kennedys of Massachusetts no clan has dominated the political life of a major state in modern times than the Browns of California.
Ruth Dunbar Cushing, longtime dolce vita resident of Rome and wife of a polo-playing member of the Vanderbilt clan, is selling two pieces of so-called "tutti-frutti" jewelry made by Cartier in the 1920s and 1930s.
George (Frolic) Weymouth, 69, a member of the Du Pont clan, is an elder statesman of American coaching.
Given Somalia's history of clan warfare, this is quite a feat.
In any case, the chief of Clan Skene, Danus George Moncrieff Skene, who is 67 and retired, has no room for "the glands man, " as he calls him.
Mr Hassan was not chosen by universal franchise but by a newly established 275-member parliament that was in turn handpicked a month ago by a conclave of clan elders.
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Calling themselves the Royal Army of Sulu, the clan members said they were descendants of the Sultanate of Sulu in the southern Philippines, which ruled parts of northern Borneo for centuries, and demanded that the Malaysian government pay more money to lease their land.
But it's a measure of both how much worse things have been in the past, and how desperate Somalis are for progress, that most people I've spoken to here are inclined to invest real hope in the current "road map", even if it is an obviously flawed process at the mercy of the usual currents of clan rivalry and regional divisions.
Another possibility is a new generation of the Torrijos clan, Hugo Torrijos, Panama's former director of ports, backed by the old dictator's son Martin.
My name is Wilfred Cleveland from the Ho-Chunk Nation, president of the Ho-Chunk Nation, the Bear Clan, from the state of Wisconsin.
The day after killing Mr Emmanuello, police arrested dozens of Mafia suspects and seized the libro mastro, or central register, of all the firms paying money to a rising clan in the eastern city of Catania.
Lahad Datu was occupied in early February by members of a Muslim royal clan from the Philippines calling itself the Royal Army of Sulu.
The Houthis, as the rebels are known after the name of a leading clan in the remote and spectacularly rugged region, have survived the repeated assaults not just of Yemen's own modern army but also, in the latest campaign, heavy bombardment by the Saudi air force's Tornadoes and F-15 fighter aircraft.
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