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...Resigned as CEO of Xe in March 2009, after Iraq barred Blackwater from operating in the country. Retained his title as chairman, although he claims to have little involvement in the day-to-day operations of the company...
...become a target for critics who say Obama has allowed congressional Democrats to turn health-care reform into a partisan enterprise that will raise taxes on the rich without controlling costs or solving many of the health-care system's biggest problems. And it is the committee's chairman, the 20-term Congressman from Harlem, N.Y., who is taking the most heat. (Watch TIME's video "Inauguration Celebration in Harlem...
...measure of the havoc wreaked on the world's banking system in recent months that the words chosen by bank bosses to convey the health of their business have lost all relative meaning. Victor Blank, chairman of Lloyds Banking Group, saw "exciting prospects for the group" in its first-half results unveiled Wednesday, Aug. 5. Northern Rock "is making progress," chief executive Gary Hoffman said of the British bank's half-year results announced a day earlier. "Our first-half performance," Barclays boss John Varley reckoned the day before that, was "a good start." At HSBC, chief exec Michael Geoghegan...
...Lauvergeon, though, has kept her top spot, with recently appointed supervisor Jean-Cyril Spinetta, chairman of Air France-KLM, backing most of her positions - even if plans for a public offering of shares in Areva, something for which Lauvergeon has long lobbied, have now been dropped. "About the only thing she hasn't gotten her way on is hearing [President] Nicolas Sarkozy say 'O.K., let's float this company,' " Elias says. "Apart from that, though, we're seeing further confirmation that she's one of the best managers in the industrial world...
...emanated "from a small number of individuals who should in no way be taken as a wider reflection of any group within Australian society." A number of critics, however, say the so-called plot illustrates a failure to integrate immigrants like the Somalis into Australian society. Dr. Berhan Ahmed, chairman of the Melbourne-based African Think Tank, an organization dedicated to assisting African refugees, says outdated policies are responsible for migrants' struggling in Australian society. Unemployment remains a huge problem. Ahmed also cites the practice of putting refugees into troubled government-owned housing complexes or high-rise apartment blocks "where...