But there also are examples of companies that harnessed this inner-circle opportunity only on the second try.
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Once having done so, they can pitch their products and services to the charity and its inner-circle of well-heeled donors.
Although Mr Eller and Ms Edstrom offer some enjoyable vignettes of the horrors of life on the campus in Redmond, where Microsoft resides, the book suffers from Mr Eller's exclusion from the senior executive inner-circle.
Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Governance Studies at the The Brookings Institution, suggested in 2001 that as a rule of thumb an incoming president need have their White House appointments -- their immediate inner circle -- in place by Thanksgiving (November 27) and Cabinet staff by Christmas (December 25).
Mr Cameron's friendship with Rebekah Brooks and other members of the Murdoch inner circle - he was at school with her husband, racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks, and the couple socialise with the Camerons - is well-documented.
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Mullah had been a loyal servant of the Jamaat-e-Islami since his days at Dhaka University and was a member of the party's inner circle of decision-makers, says BBC Bengali editor Sabir Mustafa.
Stelios and his hard-traveling inner circle noticed that Internet cafes in most cities were overpriced operations run by nerds, sometimes fleetingly fashionable but frequently going bust.
She has a cool-kid inner circle, and the people in it get the cush assignments, the high profile projects, and all of the gold stars and accolades, whether they deserve them or not.
Mann named Hale, Dozhier and University of Arkansas Little Rock professor Jimmy Peck as members of a right-wing inner circle, along with David Henderson and Steve Boynton, who she identified as the "Washington" end of the Richard Mellon Scaiffe-funded operation she witnessed.
Press down on the center, spreading the dough, or roll into a 7- or 8-inch circle -- the outer border a little thicker than the inner circle.
In 2008, militants in Gaza abducted a Fatah opponent and shaved off his mustache to dishonor him, while in 2003, in the lead up to the Second Gulf War, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri -- a senior aide to Hussein and, like the rest of the former Iraqi leader's inner circle, himself mustachioed -- created headlines when he yelled "Curse be upon your mustache!"
But he was eventually talent-spotted by Lord Browne, and became one of his Turtles (a name Browne gave to his inner circle of high fliers) - a reference to the fearsome cartoon warriors, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
But he also seems to have been a member of al-Qaeda's inner circle.
The former was once head of the government's "Darfur Security Desk" and has been a member of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's inner circle.
The government resolved to take on its foes after a bombing Wednesday killed four members of al-Assad's inner circle and government.
Once the 46-minute interview aired on television, members of al-Assad's inner circle hailed it as a victory and worked quickly to disseminate the video.
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One of the central tenets of the opposition structures is that there can be no negotiation while Bashar al-Assad and his inner circle remain in power.
They have also managed to sit in on a dinner party with Uday and Qusay Hussein, the president's odious sons, and piece together the life-style of his inner circle with fascinating detail.
While the Syrian government consistently dismisses Western media as part of a conspiracy to destroy the stability of the nation of 22 million, al-Assad's inner circle, among them journalists, appear very much engrossed in media relations.
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Within his inner circle, especially the tight-knit, politically hard-wired Bush family, the debate cut right to the bone.
The idea was to pressure North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, and his inner circle, who reportedly have a penchant for such luxury goods.
John Brennan, a member of President Barack Obama's inner circle and his top counter-terrorism adviser, is to be officially nominated to direct the Central Intelligence Agency.
Often bragging of his contacts with Mr. Yeltsin's family, he became a key conduit to decision makers in the ailing and absentee president's inner circle in the late 1990s -- a group known as "the family" -- and for a short spell he served as a member of Russia's national security council.
His inner circle contains both populists and free-market proponents, and it is unclear who will have the upper hand.
Returning to Connaught Place, seek out a child-friendly street snack on the inner circle, where ice cream vendors and a nameless stall dishing up particularly tasty sweetcorn ply their wares.
To some, this inner (and interconnected) circle of competent, pro-business advisers means good news.
Nearly all state-owned monopolies, including arms-making, are tied to the ruling inner circle.
Given the profound lack of public and congressional confidence in President Clinton's stewardship in foreign affairs -- and the high probability that this perception will result in further rejections down the road of presidential commitments overseas -- it is imperative that the President and his "inner circle" exercise far greater caution in undertaking them in the future.
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