This year's list, ranked by dollars controlled, impact, spheres of influence and media presence -- boasts 23 newcomers, a record for the Forbes Power Women list, with new women stepping in to power in politics, technology, business and media.
The indictment charges that Owens, Brauer and Gaffey spent years setting up complex entities allowing their clients to hide and invest millions of dollars controlled by American clients who did not report that money to the IRS.
This is the war room!" It could have been a scene straight out of "Dr. Strangelove" when President Vladimir V. Putin stepped into the Russian Ministry of Defense's brand new, three-tiered, multibillion-dollar control center this week, for a war briefing that had its fair share of movie-like pageantry.
Schoenberg agreed, on the condition that he receive fifty thousand dollars and control of every aspect of the production, including the pitch levels of the actors' voices.
"They don't need all those dollars to control their exchange rates," he said (but they need some to manipulate rates enough to keep their exports cheap).
West Nile virus, zebra mussels, chronic wasting disease, water chestnut, sea lamprey, swallowwort and watermilfoil are just a few examples of invasive species that have already cost tens of millions of dollars to control in New York.
Inside all those shapeless downtown office buildings are masters of various universes, business powerhouses who make millions of dollars, discreetly control industries and move markets but hardly draw any notice.
In many regions around the world, these invaders have decimated native species, destroyed fisheries and shellfish farms, and cost governments billions of dollars in control measures.
Future state and federal policies should be directed at developing these markets and incentivizing their catch, rather than spending hundreds of millions of dollars on control technologies and culling programs.
