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...means the institution, not the thousands of good, hardworking field agents whose only goal is to serve justice and make our country a safer place. It's time political correctness and careerism took a backseat to doing the right thing, and I commend Rowley for leading the way. LAURA ARMSTRONG Marietta...
...forced him to find another way - deceptively casual, never oversold, and at home with the American vernacular. Astaire moved the 'scene' of the singer from the center of the great hall to just across the table, in effect replacing the Minstrel Boy with Ordinary Guy, U.S. version." Whereas Louis Armstrong abstracted a song's lyrics into a plangent growl, Astaire mined their meaning with mediocre vocal equipment. It's a coin toss to determine which one was the first modernist pop singer...
...Talented executives are not that rare. The problem is that too many boards demand someone who has already been a CEO somewhere else, to avoid the criticism that would follow if a rookie CEO didn't work out. So we get a transient band of failed leaders like Michael Armstrong at AT&T and Joseph Nacchio, most recently at Qwest. Whenever possible, companies should promote from within, as at IBM and GE. One immediate improvement would be to index the price at which a CEO can exercise stock options so the options have value only when the stock outperforms...
...Malaysia in September 1998?has soared, rising about a third over the last year, a period during which Basu estimates that as much as a billion dollars has poured in from overseas. "When Malaysia is working well and hitting all the sweet spots together, it really roars," says Dominic Armstrong, regional research chief for Dutch bankers ABN AMRO in Singapore...
...fact of the matter is that if the Ivies decide to reduce the number of recruits they will become a non-factor on the Division I-AA level,” says defensive end Michael L. Armstrong ’03. “We finished 19th in the nation this year and diminishing the number of recruits will have a negative impact on our competitiveness...