| But the executives who masterminded the relaunch maintain that critical acclaim would eventually have translated into increased sales. |
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| As tensions continue over the company's future, its executives have been abandoning ship at a rapid pace. |
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| Too many executives are paid just for having a pulse, handed wads of money by sleeping boards who mistake cutting jobs for real growth. |
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| The two executives who were kidnapped last week are yet to be released by their abductors. |
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| Its vignettes of executives grappling with difficult problems will help others confront their own quandaries. |
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| Many accountants made it to the board having previously served as senior executives. |
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| Inspiration for the move came after hordes of late-coming executives pointed accusatory fingers at the transport system. |
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| Two company executives and three flight crew were killed when their private jet crashed shortly after take-off. |
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| Hollywood executives and other interested parties had to make do with a live webcast as he took the stand in the long-awaited trial. |
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| She will be a tough act to follow and rival fashion executives are speculating that she is leaving while the going is still good. |
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| The whacking salaries enjoyed by chief executives are necessary, we are told, to ensure the best people can be found for the job. |
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| Players, coaches and executives are frequently summoned for jury service, just like every other American citizen. |
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| Though private radio has sustained painful financial losses so far, their executives are still walking about whistling a cheery tune. |
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| Critics, TV executives and its devoted audience raved about the show, making it seem more influential in Britain than perhaps it really was. |
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| When she discarded the Afrocentric style that was her early trademark, record executives were dismayed. |
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| The government hired the company to recommend readjustments to the salaries of chief executives. |
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| Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge. |
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| At the very least, it will make television executives think twice before rebooting The Addams Family. |
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| Little wonder then that Qantas executives are racking up the air miles between Sydney and Canberra. |
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| Instead of attempting to sell ad space on kiosks to executives with no marketing budgets, he adopted a no-pressure approach to meetings. |
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| He also says other executives committed accounting irregularities without his knowledge. |
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| Few well-known executives who achieved celebrity during the boom years of the Nineties are now safe from shareholder retribution. |
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| And once federal regulators are involved, industry executives are much more likely to examine their own corporate behavior. |
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| Critics lambaste such payouts for health-care executives, calling them offensive when millions of Americans can't even afford coverage. |
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| Airline executives had warned that a change in insurance cover might force them to stop flying altogether. |
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| And they are pitching to network executives who come from largely the same world and they're all kind of speaking the same language. |
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| Editors and reporters zero in on top executives or anyone in the organization who'll talk. |
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| The problem is that the players are invariably selling themselves short and it is the marketing executives that are having the last laugh. |
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| Yet the chief executives of these companies remain relatively low-profile, making headlines only when announcing expansions or job lay-offs. |
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| The truth is that cable news executives shot themselves in the foot by surrendering to something that looks and feels like news but isn't really. |
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| Chief executives come and go, never staying long enough to be answerable for their actions. |
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| Indeed, executives at rival toy firms cannot believe that Lego has so far avoided outsourcing its manufacturing. |
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| And why would executives that are enjoying a lavish lifestyle be sending alarm signals? |
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| Her idea for a television series based on the same idea was roundly ridiculed by TV executives. |
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| But that won't happen unless facility executives are educated about the value of rightsizing and the importance of whole-building design. |
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| Some finance executives say they won't implement the complete scorecard because of the rigorousness of the theory. |
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| Now, record executives are appealing to ethics to urge parents to stamp out pirating. |
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| The huge salary rise took place after the government approved the Buckley report on salaries for executives of commercial semi-state companies. |
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| Some wireless carrier executives said the company also spends more on below-the-line marketing than any device-maker. |
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| It claims there was pressure on locals to sign their property over to oil executives. |
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| Indonesians expect foreign executives to act out elaborate rituals of etiquette as a precondition for establishing a good working relationship. |
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| And as regulatory approval is obtained, executives will be freer to share the data they have on product road maps, synergies, and cost-savings. |
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| He also asserted that they had yet to investigate to see if there were any links with some of the executives at the state company. |
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| He appears to have roiled some executives who were turned off by his hard-charging approach and overselling the merger's synergies. |
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| It hits them where they live because the executives can be held personally responsible for the damage to the company. |
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| In fact the chief executives of most large media organizations around the world are not moguls but barons. |
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| His study of emerging managerial competences involved senior executives, twenty of whom participated in a round-table forum. |
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| Ineffective strategic management can bankrupt companies and ruin the careers of chief executives. |
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| The air smells of smoke from the campfires of squatters who live on vacant lots, next door to software executives and movie stars. |
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| No longer led by volunteers, but rather salaried executives, it started approaching its goals in much the same way a corporation does. |
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| Hsieh said he was heading a team of officials and business executives to attract Macanese investors and holidaymakers to Hualien. |
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| Other media executives who use cloud computing have told me they baked in similar protections into their contracts. |
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| There is a very talented tier of young executives hungry for success and on the way up. |
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| The meeting was attended by the automaker's top marketing executives from its various product brands. |
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| The executives of international oil corporations, avowed globalizers in theory, are in practice the friends of regressive political economies. |
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| The event proceeded smoothly and the Keg was eventually tapped by two executives of the Federation of Students. |
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| British companies are still awarding their executives massive pay bonuses despite a press and shareholder outcry. |
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| A new campaign against tax dodgers has China's celebrities and executives looking uneasily over their shoulders. |
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| Technology today offers savvy business executives increasingly intelligent ways of cutting costs and automating business processes. |
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| The mostly male executives running corporations across America would do well to take note. |
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| It's still possible that this is just a cataclysmic bankruptcy for which a few malfeasant executives will pay a stiff price. |
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| The techies may well actively resist bad technology with good sales that the executives force down their throats. |
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| Now, as a managing director of The Transitions Institute, she's helping executives make changes like the one she just made. |
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| Energy deregulation resulted from lobbying by executives and backhanders paid to politicians. |
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| For 30 years he's watched schlumpy executives and star athletes alike transform their lives. |
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| However, the remaining baker's dozen of aspiring executives arrived anxious to reach their potential voters. |
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| Script writers are chafing, television executives tell you privately that they are helpless. |
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| However, Scrooge-like Post Office executives are insisting that branch offices should remain open until 4pm this year. |
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| The executives in this case have shown themselves to be anything but patriotic. |
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| The loan programme was originally created for executives who owed taxes on shares of restricted stock that had matured. |
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| Cash has become a corporate security blanket, something executives cling to in frightening times. |
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| Under threat of takeover, once-sleepy executives rushed to reshape their companies. |
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| But requirements should be changed over time to make them more meaningful to executives if initial levels don't sustain their attention. |
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| Most chief executives never have to deal with the aftermath of death and mayhem. |
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| But thumb drives aren't the only form of digital storage media giving security executives heartburn. |
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| Union officials have written to executives seeking an urgent meeting to discuss the matter. |
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| Only the most brilliant of chief executives can move the share price and even here the evidence in the face of the dotcom meltdown is scant. |
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| We would expect them to leave the executives to do their job and meet perhaps quarterly or semi-annually. |
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| Despite resistance, the etiquette debate seems to be tilting in the favor of smartphone use, many executives said. |
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| The series has delighted television executives with its unprecedented success. |
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| Scores of executives, government servants, students and businessmen were trapped on the roads. |
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| As soldiers, they are beholden to the policies and representatives and executives and judges voted in by the rest of us. |
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| Company chief executives topped the table in both years, reflecting their undiminished earning power under New Labour. |
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| Cooperatives are organized to maximize economic returns for members, not top-ranking executives or distant investors. |
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| When a company is acquired, and new executives take over, generous severance is considered appropriate. |
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| University law teachers and legal executives may be considered for the bench, he will tell the Woman Lawyer Forum in London. |
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| She says it is going to take executives of color to bring about changes to benefit the parity of newsroom diversity. |
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| While the union executives have advanced this project intensively, there is substantial resistance to it by a middle level of functionaries. |
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| Most trainers and owners have praised track executives for keeping them aware of developments and working to make the current meet. |
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| I also spent a lot of time with other technology executives whom I viewed as best-practice in some slice of what they did. |
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| A model train set with 50 pieces of track used to deliver bonus cheques to executives around the building. |
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| Her supporters said she was unfairly singled out because of her celebrity and because of bias against female executives. |
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| Corporate executives, however, see more to lose than gain from increased transparency. |
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| In the late 1990s the itch to merge seemed to infect most of the bigwig chief executives. |
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| Spectacularly inspired mismanagement by airline executives actually deserves much of the blame for the state of the industry. |
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| Another big problem with using insider data on specific companies is that executives sometimes misread company prospects. |
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| This means the shortlist of candidates to replace Mr Soden is likely to be made up exclusively of current executives. |
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| The shortlist of candidates is understood to be made up exclusively of current Bank of Ireland executives. |
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| The word flexibility trips from the lips of manufacturing executives around the globe. |
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| If a company wants money from the city, then one of its top executives can handle a turn at the podium. |
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| Michele saw Mr. Coltrane excuse himself from the crowd of executives, and wave a hand to her to signal her to join him. |
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| Ever since it gave the probe into what went wrong to two independent executives, the network has gone silent on the subject. |
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| So whether it's teens watching Buffy or executives watching their budgets, the distracted mobile user seems to be a common type. |
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| May, a month unbeloved by superstitious sailors, managed nevertheless to inject a surprise note of optimism into German executives. |
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| Nearly 50 percent of executives expect to take fewer vacations in 2003, so it's coming at the rank and file as well as the muckety-mucks. |
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| Chairmen and chief executives need to have a thick skin and take justified criticism of their companies in the way it is intended. |
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| Some new technologies, like underfloor air distribution systems, create a win-win situation for facility executives. |
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| There are plenty of other senior executives inside the bank who should be under the pump. |
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| He suffered the further indignity of almost being muscled out of the party by executives who wanted to strip him of his riding nomination. |
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| The TV executives predict a bonanza rating since both boxers are proven crowd pleasers. |
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| The evolution of sophisticated chargeback programs has been a boon to facility and real estate executives. |
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| But this was small change when compared to the pay taken in by the top executives. |
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| Wearing a natty sports jacket and carrying a briefcase, Fraser would easily fit in with any group of up-and-coming executives. |
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| State racing executives, however, continued to paint a gloomy picture of the industry's near-term future. |
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| Hampering her diligent efforts was the unchecked bragging of more senior network executives. |
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| The mayor picked him over career police executives for his unwavering political loyalty and subservience. |
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| A brainchild of the Institute of Directors it was established to improve and sharpen the business skills of executives. |
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| A reading of 50 or above on the index means that business executives are more optimistic than negative. |
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| He, they believe, was carefully positioned by network executives as an unwitting victim of sloppy reporting by a subordinate. |
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| Of course it also paid substantial sums to shareholders in the form of dividends and also paid rich salaries to its top executives. |
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| Recession is uppermost in the minds of politicians and chief executives as they gossip at the World Economic Forum. |
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| We did a soft launch that only we and our top editors and executives could see. |
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| Security executives and IT folk in particular have traditionally been short on those softer skills. |
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| Well, the immaculately turned-up students and executives of the hospitality industry kept their nerve. |
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| Since news of the scandal broke, the company has been forced to fire two of its executives and to demand the resignation of its chairman. |
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| It was too narrow, executives decided, and would do little to help the company break out of the event marketing niche. |
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| That's a question investors, executives, and politicians are asking with increasing urgency. |
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| The fields of applied neuroeconomics, neuromarketing and neurofinance have executives wide awake and on the edge of their seats. |
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| Some male executives make a point of brewing their own coffee to symbolize their professed non-sexist orientation. |
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| As talented executives and managers graduate to larger leadership roles, they vacate positions that need to be filled by equally gifted people. |
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| But executives at the public radio network recently removed the veteran newsman, making him a senior correspondent. |
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| A large part of my job is evangelizing the strengths of the Internet to executives who still use the Web just for brochureware. |
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| Many business executives now shun the major airlines and favour the no-frills operators. |
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| I see now that the voice of a company is not limited to top level executives, vice presidents, and public relations officers. |
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| More than that, this nation needs a president who uses his bully pulpit to seriously promote responsible behavior by corporate executives. |
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| It is still all too common for executives from one big company to become non-executives on the board of a string of others. |
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| Stakes in small companies will be bundled together like miniature investment trusts for busy executives to snap up. |
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| Microsoft executives bristle at talk of Trojan Horses and the suggestion that bundling its Net services into Windows is unfair. |
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| The tale spooked the executives enough to make them reexamine their assumptions about oil price and supply. |
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| Jenny aspires to become a professional businesswoman just like the executives she encounters at Jones and Smith. |
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| Oh, squealed mining executives, this is unduly burdensome, this is excessive, this is not what we want! |
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| Many companies nowadays give their executives bonuses in the form of share options. |
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| He's had a series of executives who have tried to be his number two since back in 1994, when his former number two passed away, unfortunately. |
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| Now, the attack on executives is at the forefront of the state's intrusion on civil liberties. |
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| The executives that I met with impressed me with their drive, intelligence, business savvy and can-do attitude. |
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| Some facility executives still believe that occupancy sensors are the temperamental beasts of yesteryear. |
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| As a result, facility executives may feel that applying a window film will protect building occupants. |
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| At Wembley his executives and handlers display little of the nervousness around him that is all too apparent in the courtiers to others. |
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| Ironically it was Shier's own new hand-picked team of executives, imported at great expense, who voted him out! |
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| Rather than going hat in hand to pharmaceutical executives, Canada uses single-payer's price controls to cap drug prices. |
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| On Thursday morning, October 11, executives of the five networks issued a joint decision essentially capitulating to the government demand. |
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| It suggests one of Australia's longest-serving bank executives is still open to offers. |
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| Apart from wealthy old men and executives it's not much of a hedonist indulgence but a matter of actual need. |
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| Well, if you're a typical working stiff in today's corporate world, you're not getting any bargains from the big executives upstairs. |
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| Now executives treat the plan as a work in progress, giving it a thorough once-over every quarter and reviewing some parts weekly. |
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| Options are both compensation for executives and also potential costs to stockholders, since their exercise dilutes stockholder ownership rights. |
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| Advertising executives had speculated that the two companies might discuss a carve-up of Aegis, which would be too large for Havas. |
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| I've said things in the heat of the moment but you can't honestly have executives talking up share prices just to get a short-term result. |
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| Publicly, Saudi oil executives express optimism about the future of their industry. |
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| Network executives insist they have no grand plan to begin routine streaming of their programming. |
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| So we had this big meeting with some of these executives around a conference table, and talk about your stuffed shirts. |
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| At least six senior executives have left since the beginning of 2008, including the firm's former global head of high-frequency trading. |
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| To achieve this he is putting in place a bonus plan for the top 300 executives that will reward outstanding performance. |
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| In Washington, the Protocol School's clients include high-powered business executives and members of the diplomatic corps. |
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| The overseas business schools contributing to this new centre of excellence will attract high-powered executives from around the world. |
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| Unusually, I was not taking part in a high-powered meeting of senior executives, nor was I immersed in a possible board room takeover. |
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| I went into a boardroom for the meeting, and two of the big high-up executives sat there and smoked cigars throughout the whole meeting. |
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| Despite that, Jameson said American TV executives appeared to prefer that the show be overdubbed for their market with all-English accents. |
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| There are few executives with a wit or the patience to withstand such a showing. |
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| Seventy percent of the Europeans polled, for example, think that top business executives are overpaid. |
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| If the executives were overpaid, then this company should have a competitive advantage over others in the industry due to the cost savings. |
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| In the thin free-agent market, several executives fear many players with modest talent will be overpaid. |
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| The answer is they are greedy and cheap, just like the executives of the supermarket. |
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| However, it is the wider implications of the Pearson and CLT-Ufa deal which had senior executives working overtime this weekend. |
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| All of the products will be launched in time for the holiday season, executives said. |
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| The men of my extended family were all corporate executives and the women were all homemakers. |
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| Governors, state school chiefs and business executives will lead the efforts in each state. |
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| The list of delegates included council chief executives, health officials, police chief constables and minority group leaders. |
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| With the economy flailing, many corporate executives and leveraged-buyout chieftains are taking a wait-and-see attitude. |
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| So are cable news executives just pandering to the popular taste in order to get a bigger rating? |
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| Company executives also discovered that the machine appealed to consumers who were serious about housecleaning. |
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| One major factor contributing to the company's decline is the high degree of parasitism practiced by the auto executives and big investors. |
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| These executives and managers are humble, fearless, modest, and willful with endless reserves of energy. |
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| Or is it creating a neurotic, hyperactive corporate culture in which chief executives are too nervous to make any decisions? |
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| Many housing executives view people from a very paternalistic and patronizing attitude. |
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| Expensive restaurants are patronized at supper time by a new breed of business executives who combine dining with professional interaction. |
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| Many were young support staff members earning moderate salaries far below the massive paychecks of top executives. |
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| As executives are continuing to work at the group, the issue of pay-offs had not arisen last night. |
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| It is peopled by stockbrokers, businessmen and executives, who come and go throughout the day, giving their views on matters all and sundry. |
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| Company executives said they would focus on sales in emerging markets and on co-branded operator deals. |
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| The company concluded that investors are no longer prepared to accept the word of corporate executives simply at face value. |
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| So, who can blame American executives for pining for the day when the future and the present practically coincide? |
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| Stock options were a way to make executives more involved with the fates of the companies. |
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| This article discusses the indirect costs businesses can pay when executives financially endorse a candidate. |
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| Documents show industry executives have been keen to encourage film-makers to endorse their products in this way. |
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| The company car, once the ultimate perk for business executives, could soon be heading for the scrapyard. |
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| Even logging company executives admit there was a time when they acted as if Quebec's forests were inexhaustible. |
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| Now, margins have been compressed by pricing pressures, and industry analysts and executives don't see prices firming anytime soon. |
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| But in 1992, Airbus executives received an unwelcome wake-up call. |
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| Such executives could also unwittingly invoke illicit URLs by mistyping the web address of popular software firms, banks or even children's television programmes. |
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| Such directors are most capable of evaluating the decisions and recommendations of the executives at a financial firm. |
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| Bombarded with stories about unscrupulous corporate executives and the employees they done wrong, workers begin to gaze warily at their own managers. |
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| In the meantime, the remuneration committee would like to make an award to executives that is triple the level of awards allowed under the new scheme. |
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| The CBS executives denied that the anchor swap represents a midcourse correction for the show. |
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| The America of the oil companies that funded his election campaign, the multinationals making huge profits out of sweated labour, and the chief executives? |
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| If the TV executives in this Los Angeles office have their way, America will soon get the chance to watch imported African TV shows 24 hours a day. |
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| Every day, it seems there is another story about corporate sleaze, fraud and robbery by senior company executives, many with connections to the administration. |
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| Budgets are out of control because government executives lack flexibility to shave here and there to make ends meet. |
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| They have all seen advertising revenue decline significantly and executives believe the constant diet of down news is wearying readers and advertisers. |
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| One can even hear both the regulators and Goldman executives acknowledge that the deal should have required fed approval. |
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| Despite these and other unpardonable sins, banks showers tens of millions of dollars in bonus money on top executives. |
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| Since May various GM executives, including Akerson, have been calling Lutz to pick his brain. |
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| But executives have a lot to do with the larger agenda to emasculate and colonize. |
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| Carnatica has initiated a voice management course for people who use their voice professionally, such as singers, musicians, radio jockeys and call centre executives. |
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| Yet corporate executives who create value get taxed in full on their comp packages. |
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| While top executives are raking it in, wages for workers are diminishing. |
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| American moviemakers and studio executives have always been slower to respond to social unrest, perhaps out of fear that controversy will scare away audiences. |
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| The coldest product during 2002, according to several top after-market executives, was multi-disc CD changers, which until last year had been selling quite well. |
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| Cochran was out there junketing with the best of them, enjoying an all-expenses paid trip to New Orleans, courtesy of lobbyists and executives in the poultry industry. |
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| Awarding chief executives shares and share options can encourage them to ramp the share price by acts of headline-catching bravado which rarely translate into value. |
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| Most agencies have a group of people called account executives who are responsible for liaising between the client and the agency staff who work on the account. |
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| And Jobs was a control freak who cowed his executives and micromanaged everything down to the plastic covers on the iPads. |
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| At least Apple executives can receive millions upon millions in salary and stock without Occupy Wall Street batting an eyelash. |
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| When that happens, Treasury officials and AIG executives will justifiably take a victory lap. |
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| I don't do lunch with high-powered executives any more, I'm glad to say. |
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| The good boss who finds one of his executives has failed to deliver a piece of research on time and to the right standard will probably feel a surge of anger or irritation. |
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| Here's something that has network news executives sweating bullets. |
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| I have spent most of my 30 years of practice counseling top executives at a number of name-brand financial firms. |
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| The annual general meeting season is turning into open season for a whole host of chief executives as investors vent their ire over poor performance. |
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| Hitchcock said that when vertigo was finished, he took it to New York to screen it for the Paramount executives. |
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| The final straw came when she discovered that she was heavily underpaid compared with male executives within the group doing similar or equivalent jobs. |
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| There is little room for sympathy when chief executives screw up, particularly if shareholders, employees and customers are left holding the baby. |
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| Investments such as the wind tunnel, new headquarters and Dayton Thermal will help the company meet a growing demand for its products in North America, say executives. |
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| Once executives in a company are educated to the risks, there is a much better chance that security practices and policies will be adopted company-wide. |
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| Alas, the halcyon days have receded, giving way to a cold new era in which executives actually have to earn their personal millions by making real money for their investors. |
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| Many of our organizations are cesspools of addictive and abusive behavior even as executives espouse otherwise. People harm the spirits of others daily and humanity is lost. |
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| Middle-ranking executives were encouraged to take risks off their own bat. |
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| Throughout the turnaround period, the executives in the kitchen cabinet had essentially trained everyone else within the company to defer to them. |
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| The anguish among New York Times staffers over the paper's handling of the Judith Miller saga has mounted in recent days, much to the consternation of its top executives. |
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| Pryor had yet to become the volatile social satirist who unnerved white industry executives and delighted black audiences. |
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| With 330 million customers worldwide, the move is undoubtedly causing phone company executives to squirm. |
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| In Japan, high-powered executives of big corporations are put under stress to make strong, resilient men of them, to make them think fast, to make them make decisions quickly. |
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| They enable corporate executives and knowledge workers to access and use valuable corporate information assets to more effectively measure, manage and expand their businesses. |
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| Interviews with miners and mine executives established that many companies took the test equipment and placed it in equipment rooms or near air intake ducts. |
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| Learn why a growing number of Canadian employers are introducing employment agreements for their employees-from senior executives to sales representatives. |
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| The Ponzi king is now saying J.P. Morgan executives suspected he was up to no good before his massive fraud was exposed. |
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| The minister was speaking when he met chief executives and board chairpersons of statutory bodies under the Ministry of Commerce at the ministry's headquarters. |
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| Independent schools inspector Jim Beeke asked the registrar of companies to review potential conflict of interest with company executives controlling the schools' boards. |
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| McPherson is famously abrasive and is universally regarded as one of the most disagreeable executives in Hollywood. |
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| She told delegates times were tough for manufacturing firms and the Government was just as angry as unions about executives receiving huge pay-offs. |
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| Company executives will not lack for feedback about how they are doing. |
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| I am sure producers and TV executives everywhere were sorry to hear that Jon had been laid low by pneumonia before Christmas and like me wished him a speedy recovery. |
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| They were flying muggins here to London at a time when it wasn't cheap, so I could meet these music business executives and talk about our fabulous career. |
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| The executives at Coastal Federal Credit Union in Raleigh, North Carolina, certainly believe in the technology. |
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| There is a growing generation gap between old-school general managers and scouts who trusts their instincts and new-breed executives who live to play it by the numbers. |
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| Of special interest were the multi-media packages, which business executives could use to make product and service presentations to clients and prospective customers. |
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| As CEOs tell it, rewarding executives and employees with stock options makes them all busy beavers bent solely on increasing their company's value. |
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| The inflated pension earnings created a false impression of profits and helped trigger the flow of bonus money into the pockets of company executives. |
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| Paul's background is in sales and marketing and his life coaching company normally specialises in helping well-paid executives deal with their high-powered lives. |
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| Demand for rentable homes by expatriates and local executives is driving the increase in rents for luxury properties on The Peak, a real estate management firm said. |
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| In mid-August, a group of mainland Chinese business executives made such a stink at a Chicago hardware fair that most attendants were left perplexed and appalled. |
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| Sadly, modern TV executives are more worried about holding zapping audiences and ratings figures than about television as an arts and culture source. |
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| In this case there were many executives called as witnesses but persons such as equipment operators and mechanics with direct knowledge of the facts were not called. |
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| Among the harassed electricity company executives who stammered in front of television cameras on the night of the power cuts was Bill Edwards, president of Niagara Mohawk. |
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| The Australian Institute of Management's latest national salary survey found that executives and managers did not get that much more lucre last year. |
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| In Billy Wilder's aching, razor-sharp urban romance, Jack Lemmon works for a massive insurance company and his apartment has become a love nest for adulterous executives. |
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| Chief executives of government authorities often complain that they are not given an unambiguous brief with clear mandates and a single objective. |
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| What is needed is a clean-out of those executives and bureaucrats. |
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| Horror films had been at it since the 1930s but the big change began in the 1970s, as executives twigged that there might be added mileage in follow-up stories. |
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| That seems to be particularly true in Japan, where the taste of bureaucrats and executives who can't even choose their own neckties determines how whole cities look. |
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| That hollywood ending was a re-shoot, tacked on to the end of a brilliant psychological thriller by nervous studio executives. |
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| It's not uncommon to see executives and engineers helicopter prototypes down to the trail, where a test driver puts the new vehicle through its paces. |
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| He has no doubt spent the time delving into the condition of the markets, taking soundings from business executives and consulting with his counterparts from around the world. |
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| Nor, if it comes to that, is there any justification in the way that executives awarded themselves multi-million bonuses while axing 170 rural branches. |
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| The executives were trying to wrestle artistic and creative control back. |
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| Other key presenters included executives from Google, Microsoft, and start-ups like pebble. |
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| The more far-seeing of the thousand or more chief executives here know it. |
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| Though none of the artists on the roster at his own J records has shown signs of unrest, Davis knows better than most record executives the perils of the prima donna. |
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| Whether you are selling a product, building a brand or hiring executives, there are several reasons why an evaluation system should be in place and used regularly. |
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| But, for what it's worth, I have no beefs with the current executives. |
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| Magazine magnates, television producers and movie studio executives wouldn't continue to use bridal themes as a blueprint if they didn't snare consumers. |
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| In correspondence and face-to-face talks with three executives, the five were told the company could not make the same level of savings by axing jobs in France and Germany. |
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| But a survey of chief executives last month found that one in six said their trusts would not be compliant with the new rules by the time they came into effect. |
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| And executives need to deal with those people-oriented changes up front or risk delays and bottlenecks in getting e-market initiatives off the ground. |
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| The executives promised that the new technology would revolutionize the sales cycle by analyzing trends and providing road maps to bigger and better sales results. |
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| The personal wealth of some of Ireland's most high profile technology executives has been decimated by the continuing slump in technology share prices. |
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| As a result, many chief executives lack the informal brain trust of fellow business school graduates that Americans can usually turn to for advice. |
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| Economists, bankers, and executives equated ad men with sideshow barkers, while scientists considered psychologists no better than fortune-tellers. |
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| Ailes personifies Fox in a way that is true for few other corporate executives. |
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| Fed up with television executives and studios, the star of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers set up the website last month as a vehicle for his humour and personal philosophy. |
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| After all, he works in an organization where inauthenticity reigns, where little truth is told, and where executives wouldn't know a feeling if it hit them in the face. |
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| Not surprisingly, 52 per cent of all chief executives surveyed, regardless of location, cite sustained or steady top-line growth as being of greatest concern. |
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| Senior executives believe investors will be carried away by exaggerated advertising and cash in on their pensions and homes in the hope of making a fast buck. |
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| Knowing some of the local politics I am aware that trying to support six chief executives, all with different working styles, may be an unmanageable job. |
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| Jim Milton, the doyen of crisis management, is bringing his decades of experience to bear in a bid to calm bothered executives and carve a path out of the troubles. |
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| And chief executives are not the only ones in the line of fire. |
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| Last Saturday, The New York Times reported that Ford executives have been working behind the scenes to develop a company-wide strategy for carbon-dioxide reductions. |
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| The group included insurance executives and brokers, real estate developers, and former Hawkeye State legislators. |
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| The idea behind the executive share option is that incentivised executives will work harder if they can see themselves owning a piece of the company they work for. |
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| The story caught even the most senior executives at NBC Universal off-guard. |
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