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...large telecom operators' credit ratings might fall into bbb range - the last bracket before junk-bond status - which would make it more expensive for them to finance future investments. Little wonder, perhaps, that some shareholders are calling for the heads of BT chief Peter Bonfield and Deutsche Telekom boss Ron Sommer...
...every employee got the bad news as impersonally as Peterson. When senior recruiter Kathleen Sullivan, 47, was let go, her boss led her from her cubicle into a "team room" where they could have some privacy. He apologized profusely and said he hoped they would stay in touch. "Then a tear started rolling down his cheek," she says. "I'm getting laid off, and I'm asking him if he needed a Kleenex...
Gary Davidson's firing was mercifully brief. Davidson, 39, a network administrator in a factory that makes laptops, got to work at 7:30 a.m., and his boss called him into the human-resources building. He was told that he was history and was asked to hand over his badge, cell phone and corporate cards. "They gave me the option of coming back later to clean out my desk," he says...
...evening news. The projected image: Bush at the helm but smartly hands-off, setting the tone but letting his team of professionals do their job. CEO-style corporate diplomacy - smooth, unhurried, competent, straight down from the top. And no leaks about big decisions by anyone but the boss. Thursday Bush was eating his regular lunch with Vice President Dick Cheney - the veep eating salad, Bush a taco - when the crew landed on American soil. "Good news," Bush said, as the landing was broadcast on a television the two were watching. "Welcome home...
...Pride and Prejudice. Like Elizabeth Bennett, Bridget is initially put off by the alluring yet aloof Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), a recently divorced and fantastically wealthy human rights barrister that everyone is trying to set her up with; instead, she finds herself falling for her rakish, yet caddishly womanizing boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). In her romantic and dietary pursuits, she bumbles and humiliates herself in scene after scene, endures the company of officious “smug marrieds” with the help of her singleton friends Shazzer, Jude and Tom, and puts up with her middling and flighty...