After reading Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came To Rule the World by William D.
Remember how Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) was going to rule the world?
And its competitors share a vague worry that Google is more or less out to rule the world.
So should we read into the arrival of Mr Carney that there really is a conspiracy for former Goldman Sachs partners to rule the world?
Everyone thought Myspace was going to rule the world.
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It seems like an eon ago, but the Japanese electronics industry used to rule the tech world.
Aceh enjoyed a long period as an independent sultanate until it was occupied by the Dutch in 1871, and even then it continued to fight against colonial rule right up to the second world war.
After decades of literally throwing money at the problem of global poverty, the emphasis has switched to securing property rights, buttressing the rule of law and allowing the world's workers to profit from their labor and retain its rewards.
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The shift to Islamist rule in Egypt has made the world pretty nervous.
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If he wasn't what the modern world wanted -- if he wasn't prepared to bend every principle or rule to appease all the people all the time -- then that's the world's problem rather than his.
In the latest move in a long-running dispute, Canada said it would ask the World Trade Organisation to rule against a decision earlier this month by the United States to slap tariffs of at least 19.3% on imports of Canadian lumber.
She is likely to return to the top 15 in the world rankings on Monday, and does not rule out her chances at the forthcoming French Open.
They needed to be reminded on the day where the world celebrates the birth of a child whom Rome and Herod try to assign to the role of 'surplus population, ' that the frightened men who rule the world in the name of scarcity should not be followed, but saved.
The more protectionist the world, the more exceptions to the parity rule there are.
All year he has been struggling to convince the world that Cambodia can be subject to the rule of law and is capable of staging a credible tribunal for the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge.
This has given rise to an efficient education system whose graduates are among the most competent administrators imaginable, endowed with an extraordinary capacity to manage one of the world's best performing economies while remaining close to the nation they rule.
They have threatened to complain to the World Trade Organisation, which might have to rule on whether the laws are impartial and based on sound science.
Britain is an exception to the rule, and its NHS is not exactly the envy of the developed world.
Such meetings - unless resolved - often lead straight on to the World Trade Organisation which is expected to be asked to rule on the issue.
We live under the rule of cool, and we are expected to encounter the vicissitudes of the world with a certain degree of irony.
We should offer an example of moral leadership in the world, committed to treat people humanely, abide by the rule of law, and be generous and caring to our neighbors.
On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.
He said that the UK is the "only country in the world which uses this rule and prevents important prosecutions" and the IPCC is right to say that "this rule must go".
In March, it looked as though Pistorius would not get the chance to compete against able-bodied runners after the IAAF, athletics' world governing body, introduced a rule banning any runner deemed to benefit from artificial help.
Sales of flagship Lipitor, the world's best-selling drug, jumped 23% from last year, continuing to rule the cholesterol market and take advantage of the problems being faced by Crestor, from AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ).
JPMorgan is the world's largest proprietary purchaser of financial derivatives -- precisely what the Volcker Rule sought to end.
It helps to uphold the principles of rule of law and individual liberty around the world.
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Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.
The world's top credit card company wants to rule all electronic payments--once it overhauls its computers.
Christopher Steiner is a former Forbes magazine staff writer and the author of the new book, Automate This, How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World.
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