It takes a lot of chutzpah to close down a busy section of Interstate 15, orchestrate a simulated shootout in a crowded airport lobby, or fake the firebombing of a casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
Some analysts questioned whether the economy has slowed too much to orchestrate a "soft landing" without a recession.
He helped create PowerGen's capital structure and orchestrate its flotation.
An OPEC conference ended with no agreement on a plan to orchestrate global oil production cuts.
I didn't orchestrate a plan to attack my wife.
But some customers, competitors and computer users grumble that Microsoft has become arrogant and overly ambitious in its attempts to orchestrate what has always been a buccaneering industry.
"There is an attempt to orchestrate this thing a bit," says one foreign investment banker.
Papandreou, in turn, has accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and the "American establishment" of trying to orchestrate his political demise.
One advantage of appointing a clarinet player as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is that he may be able to better orchestrate the different parts of American economic policy.
"But I also think there are a lot of things that in fact are difficult for him to orchestrate and control," he adds.
Sir Donald Gosling's generous offer to contribute Pounds 5m and orchestrate a fund to replace the Royal Yacht Britannia has caught the popular imagination.
But major black groups and the influential Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, which helped orchestrate the 1987 defeat of nominee Robert Bork, have refused to take a position.
Norman Gardner testified on Friday that John Poindexter and William Casey, the late CIA director, did not orchestrate a false cover story about the U.S. government's role in the November 1985 shipment of 18 Hawk missiles.
Others are using computers in imaginative new ways, getting them to orchestrate production lines that can turn out many different variants of the same basic product.