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...William Clay (Bill) Ford Jr. agonized over whether to fire Jacques Nasser. But when he decided two weeks ago that the CEO of the family-controlled Ford Motor Co. had to go, he moved fast. Ford called Carl Reichardt, a longtime director and former head of Wells Fargo Bank, and asked him if he would be vice chairman. To his surprise, the 70-year-old Reichardt, whose financial acumen Ford sorely needs, called back two days later and agreed. So last Monday, Ford ushered Nasser into his wood-paneled corner office and took away the keys. "We were just getting...
...papers, had enforced a rarely used law to block Black's peerage. CHARGED. YASSER AL-SIRI, 38, with conspiring to kill Afghan Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud; in London. Al-Siri, an Egyptian, is accused of providing journalist credentials to suicide bombers who assassinated Massoud. NAMED. WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR., 44, as CEO of Ford Motor Co.; in Dearborn, Michigan. Ford, chairman since 1999, is the first Ford family member to run the company in 22 years. He replaces Jacques Nasser. RESIGNED. JAMES GOODWIN, 57, as CEO of United Airlines; in Chicago. Goodwin's tenure was marred...
...grass. And no, not photographs of grass, but a photographic process using grass as a sort of photo paper. Ackroyd and Harvey have created a method in which the photosynthesis of grass is used to make an image. The artists plant grass in clay screens and expose the grass to an image as it grows. Depending on the amount of light different areas receive the blades will develop different pigmentation. Less light turns the grass to a white or yellow; more light means more different intensities of green...
Jacques Nasser couldn't have been surprised when he was told late Monday afternoon that his tenure as CEO of Ford Motor Co. was over. Following a series of managerial missteps, Nasser had been taking heat from the Ford board since March. Even before chairman William Clay Ford Jr. announced the creation of an executive office of the chairman in July, there had been heated discussion over how - not whether - to rein Nasser in. But the timing was sensitive. Bill Ford, the first family member to run the company since his uncle Henry retired in 1979, needed the broad support...
...could really identify with his idealism and hopes, the way a lot of young people here in the United States probably can,” said Clay Pell...