Patient power brokers assemble teams of academic scientists to help identify the best medicines to fund.
France Inc continues to be influenced by a small network of politically connected power brokers.
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Leonard was one of those rare power brokers who understood that power can have a higher purpose.
And on the immigration issue, Stern is equally isolated from the other big power brokers in the labor movement.
State Department and Pentagon officials acknowledge it's difficult partly because it's hard to identify the real Sunni power brokers.
Inspired by the CFF's success, patient groups with an entrepreneurial bent have become the drug industry's new power brokers.
Small states can become big power brokers and television stations can ring up millions in ad sales to candidates.
Sudden and relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests and power brokers.
An increasing number of corporations are also moving to the Washington area, often to be closer to government power brokers.
To that end, these emergent power brokers should remind everyone that they have the same rights as any other investor.
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The new generation of patient power brokers sprang from the frustrated mind of CF Foundation President Robert Beall in the mid-1990s.
In addition to Mas' party, three other major parties will be closely watched as potential power brokers in the new parliament.
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How developed are my relationships with key decision makers and power brokers?
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Some famous preachers act as power brokers as well as religious leaders.
Italians might be known for their warm and welcoming manner, but foreign investors shouldn't expect the same from the country's political power brokers.
And yet during the period of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) Elizabeth was one of the foremost power brokers for the Protestant cause in Europe.
If your personal life choices happen to line up with the interests of the beltway power brokers and their well-connected friends, you get the unfair advantages.
In the last year Komen, taking a page from the patient power brokers, has refocused its research efforts to try to get treatments to market faster.
Who knows how the primary drama is going to play out, or what Republican power brokers will do when they realize that Cain is a serious contender.
There is, however, a gulf between selection - by party power brokers - and election - by the people - although the bookmakers are tipping a Gillard victory.
Los Angeles is a youthful, antsy, many-hued city of makers and doers, power brokers and paradigm shifters, and where great big ideas bloom like Jacaranda flowers in spring.
O'HARA: US officials acknowledge that it's been hard for Americans to identify the Sunni leaders who are the true power brokers, but Jeff Beals at the US Embassy in Baghdad says it's getting easier.
And even if the students prevail, they may have to defer to Yemen's real power brokers, the military, tribal and religious leaders, such as Mr Mohsen and the al-Ahmar family, whom Mr Saleh has struggled to control.
When basic access to galactic music libraries is free, and recommendations come from peers rather than from institutional power brokers, the door is wide open for peer-to-peer platforms to take an important role in marketing, distributing and delivering music.
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The road builders association, 105 years old and headquartered just off the main drag in Georgetown--the residence for many if the capital's power brokers--has 40 employees in Washington, 5, 000 corporate and public sector members, and a fierce ability to set an agenda.
In New South Wales a party machine run by deal-makers and union power-brokers has made this impossible.
Local power-brokers have pushed their favourites, thwarting the wishes of many voters and creating rifts within most of the parties.
And despite the opposition of France and, to a lesser extent, Germany, Mr Bush has done better with other European power-brokers.
We hold them up as an example of unconquerable nature even as we applaud the daredevils and power-brokers who conquer them.
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