Word: ceo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kashani was born to be a CEO; he loves french cuffs, limousines, bodyguards, and telexes. He affixes the title "Mir" before his name, which is roughly equivalent to "Prince", and signifies that he is a descendent of the Prophet Mohammed. Kashani's most extravagant appurtenance was a briefcase containing a cellular telephone that he sported during the 1985 Model...
Thus began Ueberroth's meteoric rise to the forefront of the nation's consciousness. The former owner of a travel company, he is a businessman turned hero--the CEO who draws upon the traditional values of hard work and clean living. And he has assumed his place alongside other national figures with stunning swiftness...
Despite his rise to national prominence, Ueberroth has been subject to his share of criticism. Some view his patriotic urgings as advancing the cause of a shrill jingoism. Others have charged that he remains too much the CEO, running the national pastime as though it were just a large corporation. The most serious difficulties Ueberroth has had as commissioner, however, are related to his request that all major league baseball players submit to unscheduled tests for illegal drug use. Although many appear to agree with the commissioner's get-tough approach, others have vehemently criticized his plan, saying it violates...
...persons on his Nominating Committee "represent a diversity of backrounds and experience." Perhaps. But on the evidence of what they produced, they either did not follow through on the logic of their diversity is pretty myopic: of the ten official nominees, nine are either current of retired CEO's, chairs or partners in investment banking, real estate, law firms, and other large corporations. Not a single one of the candidates says a word about divestment, which The New York Times (April 5, 1986) referred to as "the biggest campus issue since the end of the Vietnam War." Rather...
...previous roles, Lido (Lee) Iacocca has mostly been the tough-talking star of his own Chrysler commercials. But last week on NBC's designer cop show, Miami Vice, the gung-ho CEO was back in the thespian driver's seat playing a different character. Or was he? Invited to drop by whenever he was in town by Michael Talbott, who plays Detective Stanley Switek, Iacocca did just that while in Miami on a promotional tour. The episode, scheduled to air in May, casts Iacocca in a cameo role as Parks Commissioner Lido, a "silver- haired, self-possessed, no-baloney administrative...