Mr. Rove also held shares in energy companies, including BP Amoco and Enron, that have major interests in the president's energy policies.
Because of the professionalisation of politics—few MPs these days have major interests outside Parliament the power of the whips to bully and cajole should have grown.
The younger Mr. Jiang's coups have included ventures with Microsoft and Nokia and oversight of a clutch of state-backed investment vehicles that have major interests in telecommunications, semiconductors and construction projects.
The new banking measures and other concerns about the course of the crisis in Argentina contributed to sharp declines today in stock indexes in neighboring Brazil and in Spain, where a number of major banks, utilities and other companies have major interests in Argentina.
And the typical tax-paying patriot may wonder whether they are on the same side on that question as the non-domiciled Lord Rothermere, who owns the Mail, or the Barclay Brothers, who own the Telegraph and have major interests in the Channel Islands and a Monaco address.
And in fact, General Electric has major interest in components and products used by the oil and gas industry.
After all, Petrobras, the Brazilian oil and gas company, had major interests there.
He also has major interests in a number of tourist hotels and lodges.
The older brother of Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, Mahmoud Karzai has major interests in the country's only cement factory, its dominant bank, its most ambitious real estate development, its only Toyota distributorship and four coal mines.
Delhi also has major interests in stability in the Middle East given its increased dependency on oil and gas imports.
