He got his start in commerce using family connections to win commissions to furnish palaces.
Aged 41, he built his fortune a decade ago after using his ruling party connections to win five contracts to import oil.
Of course, it is not unusual for young people with connections to win choice internships in all kinds of workplaces.
The department rarely has the cultural understanding or community connections to win trust, help people open up and move forward.
Alicia starts out the show as an underdog, but, at the end of the first season, she draws on one of her husband's connections to win a coveted position at work.
Mr. Quinn, who has been widely criticized for using his government connections to win a long-shot pardon, refused to say yesterday how much he would be paid, insisting that it was within his normal rates.
To obtain permission, she uses her connections to win over the dim, hidebound Lord Cromer (American satirist Christopher Guest, himself a onetime member of the House of Lords) who, as Lord Chamberlain, licenses live stage performances.
In America the high point of the antagonism between bloggers and the mainstream media was in late 2004, when "60 Minutes", an evening news show on CBS, alleged on the basis of leaked memos that George Bush junior had used family connections to win favourable treatment in the Air National Guard in the 1970s.
Under the banner of consultancy and organising sports and tourism conferences, it is alleged that Urdangarin and his former business partner Diego Torres used their connections to win public contracts, overcharged for services and stashed the money in privately owned companies and offshore tax havens.
Cape, 40, has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and has used those connections to win business on the West Coast.
