The company, based in Calgary, was a pioneer in oil sands exploration in the 1960's, but it has been in only the last few years that its growing production made it influential in the North American oil industry.
Ms. Blum said that in the end, it's what the wedding did not feature — namely a glut of glitz, glam or celebrity — that made it influential.
"It's easy to infiltrate Twitter with a robot and make it influential," said Fabrício Benevenuto, an associate professor of computer science at the Federal University of Minas Gerais and co-author of the study, titled "You Followed My Bot! Transforming Robots Into Influential Users In Twitter".
It was a passion for David, who played a pivotal role, unpaid and often unacknowledged, in making it so influential.
The mailers went to 100,000 registered voters, which, in addition to making it potentially influential on electoral outcomes in Montana, made it completely infeasible to get traditional informed consent from all participants.
Published in Boston, the periodical espoused the need to abolish slavery in America for 35 years, making it the most influential antislavery newspaper in the pre-Civil War era of the United States.
The Lisbon Treaty, which was introduced in December by the 27-country European Union, gave wide new powers to the bloc's directly elected Parliament, making it a newly influential player, analysts say.
His 2009 best-selling book, "End the Fed," quotes Patman's lecture and then adds, "I actually consider this an understatement, because in the past year or so during this bailout process, the Federal Reserve has garnered an unbelievable amount of power, making it much more influential around the world than the Congress or the president has ever been".
Its timely appearance during the golden age of general relativity and its comprehensiveness made it an influential relativity textbook for a generation.
