The generals who have started advising Mr Solana are described in French as an état-major, which means both "staff" and "headquarters" and has vague overtones of generals with monocles poring over maps with flags and pins.The British (including NATO's secretary-general, Lord Robertson) present the EU as an occasional sub-contractor to NATO.
One Dresden hotel has even started advising its international guests against venturing into the baroque city center on a Monday night.
"When Olivier told me he was working on something, I trust this guy so much, I could've almost started advising without knowing what it was," said Mr. Arnault, who has known Mr. van Themsche since elementary school.
Phillip Sharp, a Nobel prize-winner at that university, believes that those tools are about to be brought to bear on biology too.Robert Langer, a biochemist at MIT who holds over 500 patents in biotechnology and medical technologies and has started or advised more than 100 new companies, thinks innovation in medical technologies is about to take off.
We've all heard it -- in 1998 the FDA started advising those who have already had a heart attack to take a daily dose of the medicine.
Now Sonae has set up a venture-capital arm which will punt money on start-up companies.On the face of it, Sonae looks like an unwieldy conglomerate just the sort that was supposed to have died out when management consultants started advising companies to stick to their knitting.
Hospitals have started to advise us that if our emergency is "not life-threatening", our first choice should be to go to a local pharmacist.
But Mr. Axelrod still advises Mr. Obama even as he has started a new Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago.
The parties' agendas have become more polarised too, particularly since Lynton Crosby started advising Cameron.
Advertisers have been chasing young money since the nineteen-twenties, when consultants started advising companies to woo trendsetting flappers.
