The defeat of the no-smoking bill, like the passage of the gambling bill, involved a large coalition of interlocking interests, often with multiple clients for a single lobbyist and multiple lobbyists for a single client.
The trade dispute highlights the network of interlocking interests between the countries under the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Notice that the money was not placed in Germany or France, but rather in three notable tax havens, sophisticated pockets of secret wealth, hidden behind trusts and a spider web of interlocking corporate interests.
But an airline deal it struck last year symbolises the interlocking business interests of Hong Kong and China.
Gay made specific choices in order to highlight the vicious cronyism of those in power and their cynical exploitation of their network of interlocking self-interests to personal advantage and profit.
Those deals have posed a particular challenge for antitrust regulators because of the complex interlocking ownership interests between cable operators, programmers and high-speed Internet service providers.
Those deals have posed a particular challenge for antitrust regulators because of the complex interlocking ownership interests among cable operators, programmers and high-speed Internet service providers.
America's institutional investors must stand up to the Supreme Court's misguided decision and bring democracy to corporate governance, recognize conflicts that arise from the interlocking interests of our corporate and financial systems, and take that first step along the road to reducing the dominant role that big money plays in our political system.
"Once you're inside this keiretsu," he said, comparing the American media industry with the Japanese industrial model of interlocking ownerships and interests, "they are involved in so many businesses where in one areas they are competitive and in another they are supplicants".
In political networks, however, interlocking ties only result from the company's pursuit of interests without responding to institutional legitimacy and thus do not contribute to corporate governance.
Such a consensus is the result, among other things, of a shared "ideology" that gives fellow citizens a sense of communal belonging and recognizes interlocking values, interests, and beliefs.
