Executives at big banks and hedge funds have grown accustomed to having an influence on the Presidential race, owing to their immense fund-raising resources.
Blatter's peer group have never been mere sporting administrators – last year, he made a speech boasting of Fifa's immense funds at a time "when states are in debt".
The new part is hedge funds with (supposedly) $1.5 trillion in capital, immense hedge funds within banks and investment banks.
The cost to rebuild Rome was immense, requiring funds the state treasury did not have.
For example, the grouping of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria as "priority diseases of poverty" had immense implications for funding, as these specific diseases became the beneficiaries of increased international funding through the establishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
Deferred maintenance, low levels of federal funding, immense debt and competition with airlines have all taken their toll since the quasi-governmental entity was organised in 1971.
"There are immense challenges around funding but unlike a lot of trust-run clubs we were able to start with a clean slate.
Biovail maintains that this report, research by Bank of America that was allegedly based on it, and an "orchestrated" campaign in the media drove its share price down by more than half by March 2004, making SAC and other short-selling hedge funds "immense ill-gotten profits".The defendants vehemently deny the allegations.
"I won't dispute for one second the problems of a system that demands immense amounts of fund-raisers by its legislators" Himes told the New York Times when asked about concerns over special interest influence.
Rauschenberg had initially hoped for public or corporate funding, but in the end he footed nearly all the $10m bill for ROCI himself, selling a Warhol and some of his own early work to fund an immense tour of 11 countries, including the US.
But what we have now is merely an immense pool of investment funds that has created far too few jobs.
