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...President David Kosslyn ’11 explained the concept behind the competition as “having your boss’s boss’s boss in the elevator with you and that’s all the time you have to pitch an idea...
...Steven E. Johnston ’09 was on the trail with John McCain’s campaign, driving a van for members of the press to drop in at various parties where the senator was speaking. When he got back into his vehicle after a dinner stop, his boss told him Johnston was going to be driving McCain himself...
...hero in the first reel, make him the victor and survivor. At one point on that narrow winding stretch he negotiates a 360-degree turn, maybe a 720 - with all the flashy editing it's hard to tell - and makes his way safely to a hideout where his boss M (Judi Dench) awaits. He has a lovely gift for her in the boot of the Aston Martin: a suave crime boss, Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), brought in for MI6's brand of extreme rendition...
...completely buy into the system and the men who try to fight against it. The narrator of “Farmer Airlines” decides to fly through a typhoon in an airplane piloted by a woman of dubious credentials in order to avoid a tongue-lashing by his boss. Even though he privately thinks his Editor-in-Chief’s orders are a “disastrous idea,” when other people voice this opinion, he speaks up in dishonest defense. Luckily he survives the ordeal. His photographer, however, does not. When the protagonist makes...
...more than $10 billion in immediate government assistance, which would help shore up its tattered balance sheet and provide the cash required for a takeover of ailing Chrysler. The two companies are already close to a deal that would put GM in control of Chrysler. That would leave Chrysler boss Robert Nardelli, brought in to save the company, out of a job. "We can acknowledge that we have been in contact with a variety of federal officials for some time during this extraordinary and difficult economic period," said GM spokesman Tom Wilkinson. "We have said publicly, in comment...