It might be just enough to make him a power broker, to give him influence.
He in many ways defined what it meant to be a Russian oligarch, becoming a power broker, political operator and businessman all at once.
If that happens he will be a power broker - he is promising a referendum on the euro and believes the current austerity measures are ruining Italy.
He was known for his unflagging support of the state's national laboratories and military installations, and he became a power broker for his work on the federal budget and energy policy.
He established himself as a power-broker in the hawkish party rather than a star in his own right.
Yet even in the tech industry shared leadership works best when there is a power-broker behind the scenes.
Lopez had long been a Democratic power broker in his borough.
Cuts in "Plan Colombia" and the failure in Washington to ratify the FTA probably was an impetus in convincing the government to request help from a dangerous power broker.
And regardless of which of the many scenarios materialize after Karzai's current (and final) presidential term ends, one thing is clear: he will remain a major power broker in Afghanistan.
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Mr Prescott's role as a power-broker and counsellor smoothed the often strained relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and also helped ensure a trouble-free transition from one leader to the other.
Mr Rafsanjani, still a power-broker as head of two bodies that are meant to adjudicate between branches of government, took the unusual step of firing off a long, heated public letter to Mr Khamenei, declaring that unless the supreme leader acted to ensure a fair vote, trouble would ensue.
After a political shake-up in November, the Democratic Party of Albanians, led by a veteran power-broker, Arben Xhaferi, became the main partner of the governing party, a movement that traces its history to the Slav-nationalist struggles of a century ago but has since become tamer.
He eventually handed the job to Daim Zainuddin, a wealthy power-broker and long-time ally who had helped to devise the controls as part of a wider recovery plan.
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The Baillie of Spynie, John Innes, a local power-broker signed her up.
Russian dissident Boris Berezovsky was a former Kremlin power broker whose fortunes went into dramatic decline as Vladimir Putin established himself as Russian president.
The episode underlines Russia's continuing role as a regional power-broker.
As one of the few financial victors in online news media, she is also a de facto policy maker and a new kind of power broker.
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- African leaders said Monday they have failed to broker a power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe's president and opposition leader and urged neighboring countries to help end Zimbabwe's crisis.
In the space of a few years in the 1990s, he went from being a clever mathematician to a powerful business tycoon and then a shadowy Kremlin power-broker and Russian media magnate.
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What's less well known is the existence of a new kind of power broker on Pennsylvania Avenue, backroom power players who confront these forces and who strive to vault over them and, indeed, sometimes even succeed in doing so in making Washington work.
Mr Ahmadinejad accused all three challengers of ganging up on him, insinuating that they were in the pay of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a cleric and former president, but has long been a behind-the-scenes power broker.
As I've written before, the power of golf as a social and business broker tends to be exaggerated, as it is with politics.
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He has now written a book called Resolve and Fortitude: Microsoft's "Secret Power Broker", which details his 20 years at Microsoft.
But the real power broker in the national security transition may be Jones, a retired Marine Corps four-star general.
In practice, the distinction between warnings and war could vanish from sight if the conflict develops into a broader test of wills between the western alliance and Serbia's power-broker.
As leaked to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal this morning, Wall Street and Washington power broker Steven Rattner appears on the verge of walking away from a multi-million bribery scandal with a wrist-slap.
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His approval ratings have dipped, and the Washington power-broker has been spending rather more time in Texas than he used to: opening a new office, announcing money for new roads, posing for photographs to celebrate federal funding for new military hardware.
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