Word: ceos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many prominent CEO's and other executives of large corporations spoke at the conference, giving keynote speeches and leading panels...
...that Microsoft had settled one round of its continuing dispute with the Federal Government--by agreeing to let PC makers remove the icon for the company's Web browser, Internet Explorer, from their machines' desktops--looked like abject capitulation. But as usual, the closer you look, the craftier the CEO's reasoning seems...
...saying there was a conspiracy here, a vile plot to deflect our collective passions from old-fashioned communal endeavors like caucus meetings and political canvassing to field goals and 40-yd. passes. There is no evidence that, for example, the CEO of General Motors sat down with the officials of the NFL one day back in the '50s or '60s and said, "Whaddya say we try the old bread-and-circuses scam?" On the contrary, I believe Americans went into sports mania willingly and with their eyes wide open. There is a human need, perhaps especially in a culture that...
...FedEx or UPS. Yet the post office can't match their delivery record or track a piece of priority mail from shipper to receiver. An advertising review board rejected a FedEx challenge to the spots last year, but the two rivals remain in litigation. Says UPS chairman and ceo Jim Kelly: "I can hardly imagine that the goal of government should be to put the private entrepreneur out of business...
...Michael Murdock was all set to show up at his new job this week as president of Apple Computer. Only trouble was, he didn't have the job. You can't entirely blame him for being confused: according to the San Francisco Chronicle, he had E-mail from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and board member Larry Ellison telling him he was hired. The E-mail was real--but the job offer was totally tongue in cheek. Seems Jobs was fed up with Murdock's persistent inquiries about the position and decided to handle it with humor...