This establishment attracts a clientele of both tourists and businessmen.

Unfortunately, Bo s case is not the exception in China, but the rule. Contrary to the prevailing perception in the West (especially among business leaders), the current Chinese government is riddled with clever apparatchiks like Bo who have acquired their positions through cheating, corruption, patronage, and manipulation.

And what we're doing is we're giving them Ritalin and saying, Don't be an entrepreneurial type.

The Ukrainian tycoons are no fools.

Beyond the judiciary, a slew of institutions, including the federal police and the finance ministry, have taken part and worked in synch. Leading businessmen and politicians have been jailed, among them the former treasurer of the ruling Workers Party.

Businessmen find it impossible to use the rial even for domestic transactions, because inflation is spiraling out of control.

(Many of the country s top businessmen faced prosecution in subsequent years.)

Companies, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, they all need to understand this is a huge business opportunity, as well as an enormous social problem.

As a senior Asian statesman told me recently, Deng would never have made this mistake.

Initially, his government contained nine groups of big businessmen, but that number has fallen gradually, and even top businessmen have been marginalized by his core loyalists, who are widely rumored to be enriching themselves at the expense of both the state and private business.

Among the company s other senior leaders are more ex KGB men, including Sergei Ushakov and Konstantin Chuichenko.

Some big businesses in privileged positions would make a fortune from exploiting this rather rigged market.

Actions are to be judged by their intentions.

According to a study by LUISS University, half of the country s top business leaders and political officials are 60 or older.

But this time, as business leaders shared their experiences, one could almost feel the clouds darkening. The spirit was captured by one participant who suggested that we had gone from boom and bust to boom and Armageddon.

In a speech delivered before an audience of Indian business leaders in Bangalore, he accused Pakistan of being on both sides of the Afghan equation.

He found only old men and women, as well as children, but no one representing the age groups in between.

Heads of state tripped over one another to meet business leaders in Mumbai, hoping to pave the way for a significant expansion of trade and investment.

Ending the insurrection will also require better government, whatever the low expectations of business leaders.

Later that day, Lula met with infrastructure industrialists in a luxury downtown hotel.

They urge America s president elect Barack Obama to pursue a green revolution with big investments in renewable energy, arguing that this could create millions of new green collar jobs and open huge new markets.

Its business leaders will hunker down and try to move their wealth out of the companies they run for fear of high future corporate taxes.

As long as stock prices are buoyant, business leaders are not scared of future taxes or of policy uncertainty.

In Thailand, the rage stems from the perceived neglect of the rural poor by the ruling class, backed by big business, the army, and the king.

Similarly, the tycoons advocate restored cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, because they want access to credit at reasonable interest rates.

The very secrecy of these insurgencies makes them bizarre.

Following the crisis, this problem has become widely recognized, including by business leaders such as Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

The threat of irrelevance is understood by leading statesmen, who have committed themselves to putting their shoulders to the wheel.

Crony businesses from the US and Europe, which are utterly unfamiliar with local conditions, squander time, aid funds, and opportunities.

And there you will see it grown men and women writhing uncontrollably, off the beat, waiting until it ends so they can go home and write a paper about it.

Put a Texas oilman and his buddies in charge and what do you expect, conservation? Unfortunately, that is a facile excuse.

In Tibet, where for the last 30 years major Tibetan businessmen had been seen as natural allies of the state, such developments are unprecedented.

Indeed, African business leaders often cite finding people with the right skills as a major challenge to their operations, especially in high tech industries.

More recently, leading American congressmen have been impressing on President Barack Obama the need for a muscular effort to implement the CPA.

Sex tourists, who were usually older men, stayed in service apartments, however, instead of hotels, and young girls made contact with them through the Internet.

Business elites were not any less politically powerful back then. But they used their influence to advance an agenda that was broadly in the national interest.

CAMBRIDGE Last year, the leaders of all five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council visited India, accompanied by delegations of business leaders.

When the Cabinet Office called upon 60 business leaders, academics, and economists (including me) to perform such an evaluation, more than 70 favored the hike.

Last January, Lula visited the island with a string of leading Brazilian businessmen and signed trade and investment deals worth 1 billion.

Leading British business figures, too, have cautioned Cameron that he risks destabilizing the UK economy inadvertently if he seeks a wholesale renegotiation of EU membership.

My uncle's brother's son got involved in a shady business and disgraced the family.

The Business College of the University, founded in 1916, was the first college and the only one of its kind for nearly 50 years in Spain.

The Group brings together top UN officials and business executives, including from Edison International, Statoil, Suntech Holdings, and Vattenfall.

Indeed, there is a long tradition of retired police parachuting into lucrative posts in Pachinko, the de facto gambling industry and, to a lesser extent, across the public gambling sectors.

A leading fashion industry executive argues that a key engine driving the economic boom has been the influx of women into the workforce, particularly in the manufacturing zones of the south.