When Mr. Giuliani won his second campaign, Ms. Lhota was assigned to run the nonprofit group now known as the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City, which promotes public-private partnerships, tapping businesses and wealthy New Yorkers to pay for initiatives squeezed out of city budgets, like computers for middle schools and money to restore City Hall's storied Blue Room.
It instead tapped businesses that extended the most favorable swap terms.
Workers there once made bells; now the cluster has around 380 firms that together employ about 10,000 people making valves and taps, businesses that took off with reconstruction after the second world war and the building boom that followed.
Of the other sons, Matt Romney, 35, a real estate developer in San Diego, has concentrated on fund-raising, tapping his business contacts from Harvard Business School (three of the five Romney sons graduated from the institution).
You can place a marker by searching for a location, tapping a business marker on the map, or by pressing and holding any spot on the map with your finger.
G.E. wants to tap a business-to-business Internet market that is expected to rise to $1.3 trillion in 2003 from $109 billion last year, according to Forrester Research.
As well as individuals, fundraisers are also tapping into businesses' capacity to donate both money and equipment.
Regional reserve banks tap into business networks with great insight into how the economy is operating, at a very detailed and local level.
Samantha, who had gone back to college, planned to finish school and find work that would tap her business experience and her interest in charitable work.
It should come as no surprise that the Coca-Cola Company developed a program to discourage restaurant customers from drinking tap water (Business Day, Aug. 20).
