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Watanabe No. 38 Among Global Elite

Discussion in 'Prius, Hybrid, EV and Alt-Fuel News' started by Bill Merchant, Dec 28, 2008.

  1. Bill Merchant

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    Newsweek has an article in the January 5, 2009, issue on The Global Elite, profiling the 50 most powerful people of the world.

    1: Barack Obama
    2: Hu Jintao
    3: Nicolas Sarkozy
    4-5-6: Economic Triumvirate
    7: Gordon Brown
    8: Angela Merkel
    9: Vladimir Putin
    10: Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud
    11: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
    12: Kim Jong Il
    13-14: The Clintons
    15: Timothy Geithner
    16: Gen. David Petraeus
    17: Sonia Gandhi
    18: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    19: Warren Buffett
    20: Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
    21: Nuri al-Maliki
    22-23: The Philanthropists
    24: Nancy Pelosi
    25: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
    26: Mike Duke
    27: Rahm Emanuel
    28: Eric Schmidt
    29: Jamie Dimon
    30-31: Friends of Barack
    32: Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    33: Rex Tillerson
    34: Steve Jobs
    35: John Lasseter
    36: Michael Bloomberg
    37: Pope Benedict XVI
    38: Katsuaki Watanabe
    39: Rupert Murdoch
    40: Jeff Bezos
    41: Shahrukh Khan
    42: Osama bin Laden
    43: Hassan Nasrallah
    44: Dr. Margaret Chan
    45: Carlos Slim Helú
    46: The Dalai Lama
    47: Oprah Winfrey
    48: Amr Khaled
    49: E. A. Adeboye
    50: Jim Rogers

    That's right, Katsuaki Watanabe, President of Toyota, is number 38.
    [IMGLINK]http://ndn2.newsweek.com/media/17/wantanabe-toyota-YR3801-hsmall-vertical.jpg[/IMGLINK]
     
    #1 Bill Merchant, Dec 28, 2008
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    Oprah number 47?? Wow
     
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    I supposed one doesn't need to be a media-tycoon or an influential industrialist to be in amongst the top-50.

    Just look at who is at 42nd.....
     
    #4 ManualOnly, Dec 29, 2008
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    why is sarkozy 3?
     
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    What about The High King of Ireland.....Bono!!,there's a bit of a joke here in Ireland...Pope John Paul 11 and Bono in a photo together and someone asks
    "who's that standing beside Bono":D
     
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    interesting. lets just hope osama bin laden wont get a higher rank next year..
     
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    Number 39 is a good Adelaide boy.
    His first newspaper was the Adelaide paper "The News" and my dad worked for him.
    Funny how you can start in a little city of 1,000,000 and end up with a global empire.
     
    #8 patsparks, Dec 30, 2008
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    I don't agree with that ranking. Too many powerful people aren't there, and I argue the journalist has been too much superficial.
     
    #9 Spotlight, Dec 30, 2008
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    patsparks An Aussie perspective

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    Yeah I agree, where is Kylie and Madonna?
     
    #10 patsparks, Dec 30, 2008
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    its all just one persons opinion. he may have had input from several different people, but its still just one person's opinion...

    personally, i dont think very highly of his opinions
     
    #11 DaveinOlyWA, Dec 30, 2008
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    Angela Merkel,the same person who criticised the Irish Government for first suggesting to shore up the banking system[in Ireland anyway] and then did a u-turn and thought it was a good idea....Merkel me a**e!!
     
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    I don't care how much everyone hates President Bush or how much of a lame duck he is, not putting the sitting President of the US in the number one position is a major clue that this writer is an idiot.
     
    #13 stumpy_c, Jan 3, 2009
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