Word: chairmen
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...national level but also at the international level, and they know what businesses want." Many expect the Socialists to intervene in business less than the PP did. Four out of five of Spain's largest companies - Telefónica, oil company Repsol, BBVA, and utility giant Endesa - have chairmen appointed by the previous government. Some fear they will get turfed out. But while the government is said to have quietly encouraged Telefónica to invest more in broadband, for instance, few expect it to get heavy-handed. A drastic bloodletting, says José Manuel Campa, professor of finance...
...thought democracy was about the people choosing their government, not about Democratic and Republican party chairmen forcing us to pick between the two people they support. Although I would much rather see a Democrat in office than Bush again, I refuse to continue to vote for the lesser of two evils. My vote for Nader is not a vote for Bush. It is a vote for Nader, and I hope it will shake up the hegemonic two-party electoral system so in the future voters will have a real choice. ELIZABETH DAWN CREACH Beaverton...
...could over time become part of the public debate,” Kupchan said. “It is obviously of importance that the co-chairmen Larry Summers and Henry Kissinger are individuals of considerable visibility and stature...
...will reimburse the fund for any gains found to be improper.) But cleaning up the mutual-fund industry will take more than that. "I don't see this as a governance issue," says John Brennan, chairman of the Vanguard Group. "Half the named funds [in the scandal] had independent chairmen...
...front-page cartoon in Corriere Della Sera, Italy's leading daily, said it all. A scrum of center-left opposition figures - communists, reformers, party chairmen, union bosses - hoisted a man named Gianfranco Fini on their shoulders and shouted: finalmente un leader! Finally - but Fini is no center-left leader. He's head of the right-wing, "post-fascist" National Alliance Party, and Deputy Prime Minister in Silvio Berlusconi's governing coalition. The opposition can't stand Berlusconi, but they were feting his right-hand man because Fini had suggested that immigrants "who live, work and pay taxes in Italy" should...