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...list of the Seven Deadly Sins, the informal first-wives club gave way to a marketplace ethic. In magazines, books and movies, a new trophy wife was viewed as one more perk for the corporate shark, career-enhancing proof that his manly takeover skills weren't limited to the boardroom. After all, wife No. 1 was old-think, a mom-and-pop store in an age of mergers and acquisitions. Wife No. 2 by lavishly spreading the shark's money around to hospital and museum boards, was soon lionized in the pages of the Living Section and Vogue...
...same dismissive derision that a woman was incompetent at checking the oil in her car, he would be decried, vilified, crucified and possibly emulsified for making such a sexist remark. I guess women do not like men in the kitchen any more than men like women in the boardroom. FRANK J. BRADLEY Dallas...
...boasts Commander Johnny), but Forbes doesn't seem to notice. When the bus halts outside Atlantic, Iowa, to let an endless freight train snake past, Forbes looks not at the parade of colorful boxcars but only at his watch. The atmosphere inside is more like a hushed corporate boardroom than a vehicle for Steve's Excellent Adventure. Muted conversation between the few staffers--no music, no mess, no jokes. Journalists are loaded into a small room at the back and then ushered quietly into the main cabin for interviews...
Outside the boardroom, Redstone praised his deposed chief executive (who will get a severance package that could amount to $45 million or more) and promoted two lieutenants, general counsel Philippe Dauman and finance chief Tom Dooley, to be his chief deputies. But it was clear that the 72-year-old chairman plans to take hands-on control himself. "When you have a CEO, unless you want to undermine him--and I never wanted to undermine Frank--you pretty much have to follow his course," Redstone told TIME. "I saw issues developing, and my sense was that they weren't being...
Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance president William D. Zerhouni '97-'98 said Forbes's style was more reminiscent of the corporate boardroom than the political podium...