And she would use her Senate seat... to become a leading Democrat prospect to run for president.
Lawyers for the 62-year-old Frenchman, who had been a leading Socialist prospect to run against Nicolas Sarkozy next year, seem ready to rebut any DNA evidence by arguing that sex with the maid who came in to clean his room was consensual.
"It's attractive if someone comes along and offers you $100,000 to do a line for them," said Mr. Marone-Cinzano, who, as a scion of both the Cinzano and the Agnelli industrial families, seems an unlikely prospect to run a fashion firm whose principals refer to the soulfulness of their clothes.
With these financial concessions the lead producers, Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris, are hopeful that the weekly operating expenses can be reduced — improving the show's prospects for continuing to run on Broadway for some time to come, the three people said.
Having transformed Norilsk Nickel, Mr Prokhorov faced the far less exciting prospect of having to run it.
For a brief period, Mr. Powers faced the highly unusual prospect of having to run for Congress against his son Francis M. Powers, who was one of two candidates seeking the Libertarian nomination for the seat.
Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and former Gov. Mark Warner of Virginia were considered among the brightest Democratic prospects, but both declined to run.
While Sharp and Botsford were unable to affect the outcome of Perry's 1998 race to be lieutenant governor, more than a decade later Botsford was presented with a second shot at harming Perry's electoral prospects when Perry decided to run for president.
Representative Pete Stark, Democrat of California, said Democrats relished the prospect of being able to run next year against Republicans led by Mr. DeLay, who used to operate a pest control business.
As prisons and jails eat up a larger slice of government budgets, prosecutors face the prospect of shrinking revenues to run their offices.
