Word: chairman
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...think the new Taurus rocks. It's a very personal thing to me. When I was still at Boeing, Don Petersen, a former Ford chairman, asked me if I wanted to meet the Taurus team. So when I arrived at Ford, the first thing I wanted to see was, How's it going with the Taurus...
That may lead to a standoff, given that many banks are like underwater homeowners - hoping to hold on until prices rebound. "The challenge is going to be to get the prices high enough for banks to sell," FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair told reporters the day the plan was unveiled. "The problem is going to be low pricing, not high pricing...
...hematoma is blood between the dura and brain. Both injuries have a mortality rate of about 50%. Intracerebral bleeding, which occurs within the brain, is even more serious. "Patients get redlined to surgery in 15 to 30 minutes" if they have any of these injuries, says Dr. Neil Martin, chairman of the department of neurosurgery at UCLA...
Clearly a student of the history of momentum in politics, Geithner decided to strike while the iron was hot. He and hapless Fed chairman Ben Bernanke went before Congress. Geithner, who was supposed to be unemployed last week, aimed high. He asked that Treasury to be given the power to essentially liquidate large non-bank financial institutions. The department would have the ability to seize a company like AIG, sell its assets, and manage its business to do as little harm to the global financial system as possible. All of this would be accomplished using taxpayer money, but there...
...winner in the current standoff, if there is one, may be the departing Gyurcsany, who retains a measure of power after orchestrating his re-election as MSzP party chairman over the weekend. He may be the most unpopular man in Hungary right now but Gyurcsany's opponents may regret his departure...