IRI, the giant state holding company originally created by Mussolini, was once run by none other than Romano Prodi.
This roadhouse restaurant and Hütt brewery was once run by Dorothea Viehmann, who also fed fairy tales to the Brothers Grimm.
The lab was once run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program and one of the most successful nuclear proliferators in history.
When people talk about the corporatization of network news, they mean that something that was once run in the service of truth and the public interest is now being run according to the principles of the marketplace.
People briefed on the matter say the middleman passed some of the money to banks and other firms that traded with MF Global, which was once run by Jon S. Corzine, the former governor of New Jersey.
Halliburton's former subsidiary, KBR, which was once run by former Vice President Dick Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $24 billion since the start of the war, giving it vast responsibility for reinvigorating Iraq's oil sector.
Since shedding its specialty chemicals divisions in 1997, said Charlie Mills, an analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston, "Unilever has been going for a radical change in the rather sleepy Anglo-Dutch colonial attitude that it was once run with".
The Juárez cartel, whose leadership Mr. Quintero inherited, was once run by Amado Carrillo Fuentes, perhaps the nation's most powerful cocaine kingpin in the early and mid-1990's.
"In general, the human race has demonstrated a 'party now, worry about it later' attitude," said Mr. Washburn, who was once run over by a machine that went in to rescue him after a wipeout.
