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...that the median tenure for a CEO in the U.K. is now only 2-3 years and that 68% of European CEOs hold office less than five years. Globally, the median corporate captain's term has dropped from nearly four years in 1999 to less than three today. The clamor for shareholder value, which pressures ceos to post good numbers quick or get out, helps drive the turnover rate. Yet shorter stays raise questions about how effectively ceos can launch long-term plans for their companies' growth and development. But at least if they get lonely at the top, they...
...with roaches and drug dealers, our public schools are still suffering from inattention, and too many of our citizens are still abandoned to the streets, sub-par nursing facilities or mental institutions. In Los Angeles, television executives are doing their best to capitalize on the country's sudden, collective clamor for nostalgia, pumping out maudlin new series (like NBC's "American Dreams"). And in New York, the mercenary battles rage on over the distribution of cash raised during 9/11 benefits...
Though uncorroborated and vague, the terror alerts were a political godsend for an Administration trying to fend off a bruising bipartisan inquiry into its handling of the terrorist chatter last summer. After the wave of warnings, the Democratic clamor for an investigation into the government's mistakes subsided, but Rowley's memo had members of both parties turning up the heat again. Senate majority leader Tom Daschle seized on the document as reason to appoint an independent commission to examine intelligence failures prior to Sept. 11, an idea the White House intensely opposes. Daschle says he will bring a bill...
...images, of course, will not go away: the planes exploding in flames, bodies falling through the air. And in their wake, more mundane but still disquieting pictures--endless lines in the airports, armed guards watching as shoeless innocents empty their pockets (while across the world people clamor for America's humiliation). To many of us, as the peak vacation season draws near, travel may seem a less appealing prospect than it has ever been...
Just ask Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60. When Nesson offered to defend Scholl in a mock trial, he encountered objections nearly as vociferous as the initial clamor. BLSA demanded that Nesson be publicly censured and barred from teaching first-year classes, and Nesson agreed to step down from teaching all but the final lecture of his torts class this year...