Mr. Murdoch said the power of newspaper proprietors is sometimes overstated but that they do have power.

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Black-outs have sometimes occurred simply because power has been choked off.

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Sometimes one spouse may have been using a power of attorney to write checks out of an account of the one who is now deceased.

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Well, companies sometimes have protection from inflation embedded in their pricing power, in the margins of their businesses.

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Fears of uncurbed immigration, legal and illegal as Europe's internal borders fall away, may have boosted right-wing parties at the margins, enough sometimes to bring them to power.

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