But corruption in Kentucky consists of mining firms leaning on local officials to go easy on environmental regulations, or school boards appointing their members' relatives to sinecures.
As the banking industry buzzes about how to get around President Obama's compensation restrictions for firms leaning on taxpayer support, Britain's decision to take an active ownership role in R.B.S., which recently accepted a £20 billion ($29 billion) capital injection, leaves the bank with little room to focus on anything but clawing its way back to profitability.
The Washington Post Co. secured their future by buying Kaplan Learning centers, morphing the company into an "information" firm and leaning on the new entity, rather than their news operations, to drive growth.
Firm No, Leaning No, Likely No (36) Firm Yes (2) Leaning Yes (5) Undecided (71).
While your firm is tiny, leaning on someone else for help may give you more expertise.
And given the normal success rate of VCs, that means the firm is really leaning on a few exits to earn more than $1 billion.
Based on this poll, and a prior survey the firm conducted in Michigan, we calculate the firm's house effect as leaning Republican by roughly 11 percentage points relative to the overall consensus.
The campaign is also courting prominent Wall Street figures who could serve as Mr. Obama's ambassadors at firms known for leaning Republican: Lenard B. Tessler, a managing director at Cerberus Capital who donated to Mr. Romney and Mrs. Clinton in 2008, and Hamilton E. James, the president of the private equity behemoth Blackstone.
Down the line the candidates went, with six saying they leaned or were committed to denying Mr. Hatch another term, a few leaning or firm toward keeping him, and the rest professing indecision or a willingness to be swayed by the precinct's others members.
David Clarke, 20, a technology assistant at a law firm, said he was leaning toward casting his first presidential vote for Mr. Kerry, because he thought the administration was not being truthful in responding to Mr. Clarke's accusations.
