In the 18th century, Denmark was a great power, controlling much of Scandinavia, all of Schleswig-Holstein, and Iceland.
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Desmarais went from a bus business to controlling Power Corp.
Britain's reaction to the growth of the European Union has been deeply influenced by this instinctive belief in the need to prevent the rise of a controlling power in Europe.
Wim Elfrink, a Dutchman living in India in charge of Cisco's booming global services business, talks about using the Internet to collapse the cost of U.S. medicine by employing Malaysian doctors or making China's urban electrical grid more efficient with an intelligent Cisco data network controlling the power.
By comparison, Liz Mohn, who wields power on behalf of the controlling family at Bertelsmann, Europe's biggest media company, is an unknown.
The first two columns of the table show how the Dow does depending on whether or not the controlling party stays in power.
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In what many took to be fodder for the capitalism-is-a-conspiracy theorists, boffins have claimed that about 150 companies, mostly banks, are controlling the majority of the economic power.
The development and implementation of new storage and memory architectures, combined with evolved storage system management can play an important role in controlling the growth of data center power use even as the total amount of content in data centers grows.
It's not all touchscreen, though -- several buttons (controlling a pop-up flash, power, zoom toggle, and shutter release) are also part of the somewhat bulky build.
What seems to be attractive in science is no longer its being a high intellectual activity, a continuous human search to represent and predict nature, but for what it can produce in terms of controlling, and therefore in terms of power, of mankind on his sorroundings and his fellows.
In addition, many leaders and managers hesitate to share information with other departments, believing that controlling the data puts them in a position of power.
Under the police reforms, the commissioner has the power to appoint and remove Chief Constables and is also responsible for controlling the police budget.
Under the new law, a regulatory autonomous body formed by seven regulators, known as the Federal Institute of Telecommunications, will have the power to revoke operating licenses for monopolistic practices and to stop companies from controlling more than 50% of market share.
Mr al-Bukhary, a close friend of the prime minister's, has built an extraordinary empire in a the five years since the crisis, including Malaysia's fast-growing new container port at Tanjung Pelepas, a hotel and property group, Pernas, mining companies, power companies, palm-oil companies and much else, including a controlling stake in the Bakun dam on the island of Borneo.
The banks insisted that the controlling family, the Ruias, restructure the businesses, and sell a power plant and other assets to bring in cash.
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