In fact, his agency developed very clever means to gain access to facilities, especially embassies and foreign offices that would rival anything we have today.
Mr Fazio rang Mr Fiorani shortly after midnight, one night in July, to tell him he had just signed a document approving BPI's plan to take a majority stake in Antonveneta, thereby (it seemed at the time) scuppering the rival, foreign bid.
But when, on Tuesday, Mr Sharon publicly re-offered his rival the foreign ministry for the coming three months, Mr Netanyahu surprised him by accepting the job, while insisting that he would not change his plans to fight Mr Sharon for the Likud leadership.
Now that Mr Dewar has seen off Robin Cook, the foreign secretary, he has no rival for the job of first secretary (ie, Scottish prime minister) of the new administration.
The ad was hardball stuff and attacked her election rival's lack of foreign policy experience.
His low-cost airline, Virgin America, celebrated its first year of flying in August, but Alaska Airlines recently filed a complaint that its rival is violating U.S. foreign ownership rules on domestic airlines and asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to conduct a public inquiry.
Mr de Villepin, Mr Sarkozy's chief rival on the right, has not denied that, as foreign minister, he ordered a covert inquiry into the allegations by General Philippe Rondot, a top spy then working for the defence ministry.
The Schwarzman Scholars programme aims to rival the 111-year-old Rhodes Scholarship programme which enables foreign students to study at the UK's University of Oxford.
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This deal now sets the stage for a new battle in the US beer market, this time between two foreign giants: the newly merged Anheuser-Busch InBev and its London-based rival SABMiller, where gaining market share is not going to be as significant as controlling costs.
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