It is no longer missile throw-weight but economic weight that guarantees a hearing.
Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) is about to throw its considerable weight behind internet-based telephony.
American investors in China, such as Boeing and Motorola, regularly throw their weight against the anti-Chinese lobby in Congress, which tries to deprive China of its most-favoured-nation trade status each spring.
They illustrate her wide-ranging interests (from e-commerce to wireless electricity), as well as her throw weight in Silicon Valley (not everyone gets to co-invest with Andreessen Horowitz or to back Jack Dorsey).
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Intel's ability to throw its weight around won it the high-profile Apple account, displacing IBM and Freescale.
Their ability to throw weight around can mean higher, return-eating fees that can push up costs for investors, even those who never go near a supermarket.
It urges the Bush Administration for once to throw its weight with the potential victims of such repression -- rather than its perpetrators -- and in so doing to contribute to deterrence of such an eventuality.
On any given weeknight, any one of the city's more than 42, 000 nonprofits could be hosting an event at Cipriani or the Waldorf-Astoria, bringing together big names actors, CEOs of blue-chip companies, politicians who make headlines to throw their weight behind the cause.
When movie maker Warner Bros. said it would throw its weight behind Sony's format for storing high definition movies, Blu-Ray, Sony executives likely popped a few corks.
Three years ago, he co-signed a letter to the then president, Bill Clinton, calling on him to throw his weight wholeheartedly into an effort to topple Saddam Hussein.
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