Not the accumulated services business too many influential people seem to believe they are in.
In fact, Appinions found that there are twice as many influential CEOs as there are CMOs.
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These two views have been widely adopted, without empirical foundation, by many influential financial and political policy-makers.
But think of how many influential books are not on on those lists.
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What caused so many influential, left-of-center policy leaders to take up their pens and blurb a book so exuberantly?
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Both in the United States and abroad, many influential observers argue that the U.S. is in systemic decline.
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Many influential politicians in France, Germany, Austria and some other EU countries are opposed to granting Turkey full membership.
But whether such an agreement is reached in Rio or not, a tipping point is approaching as investors, governments and even many influential corporations come to see such disclosure as a key mechanism for strengthening markets and essential to building a sustainable economy.
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Nothing But the Truth has garnered praise from playwright and activist Eve Ensler, MS Magazine editor Katherine Spillar, actor Peter Coyote, and many more influential people, but we encountered a great deal of resistance from the traditional publishers, some of whom told us that it would take at minimum 18 months to get the already edited book published.
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The Fed keeps many of the influential editors of prominent academic journals on its payroll.
The issue raises emotions on all sides, with many Americans and influential conservatives in Congress angry that foreigners are taking jobs and draining resources across the country.
Boyd also set up London's UFO club, at which many of the most influential bands of the '60s played.
But even after he was discredited in many eyes he remained influential.
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But some of the steps that have made him popular in New Jersey could present hurdles in a presidential run, where conservative Republicans are influential in many of the states that vote early in the nominating process.
These people are famous or well-known for having achieved great things in their particular fields, in many cases things that have touched our lives in many different ways but influential in the true meaning of the word?
Her book was groundbreaking, is considered by many one of the most influential books of the Twentieth Century and sold more that 3 million copies.
Unforgiving, emergent and with an easily grasped ruleset allowing for significant variation in each game, it is strangely both influential and in many ways a path not taken.
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They did the same to the novel when it came out 50 years ago, and it has sold over 7 million copies since, coming in second to the Bible in many surveys as the most influential book of all time.
Major journals, unable to maintain their cash flow, have been acquired at low prices by newcomers hopeful of developing a new business model, and many well known and formerly influential news journalists have been laid off, or moved to on-line environments in order to maintain employment.
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There would also be geopolitical consequences, as Venezuela hosts numerous influential investors (including many Americans).
"We now have the privilege of working with many of the most insightful and influential music-related publishers in the world, " commented Bill Wilson, Townsquare Media Group EVP and Chief Digital Officer.
Researcher Sibongile Perfile said that nature was the source for many of the world's most influential medicines.
These institutions reach millions of New Yorkers every day, due in no small part to the generosity of many of the city's most influential people.
Since leaving power two years ago he campaigned forcefully on behalf of children, as has Graca Machel, who has been a highly effective children's champion for many years and who wrote a highly influential report for the United Nations on the impacts of conflict upon children's lives.
On a nearby wall hangs "Totem Figure, " a facial relief carved in wood and painted by Cecil Skotnes, who in the 1950s and 1960s presided over a Johannesburg artists' salon called Polly Street that became a training ground for many of South Africa's most influential painters and sculptors.
Calo is part of an influential group of privacy thinkers (many of whom are law professors) who are trying to guide D.
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While two executives have been appointed from within the company to replace Ms Shepherdson, losing such an influential figure has been seen by many analysts as a large blow for Sir Philip's Arcadia Empire.
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Chief responsibility for the spotlight now shining Copenhagen's way lies with the city's young chefs, many of who have apprenticed with some of the most influential chefs in the world.
As FORBES GLOBAL went to press, some 30 of Latin America's richest and most influential businessmen, and one businesswoman--many with their sons or nephews in tow--gathered in Mexico City for a three-day gabfest.
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