Word: daft
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During investment banker Herb Allen's annual gathering for media moguls in Sun Valley, Idaho, last July--when locals were paid $20 an hour just to be available for baby sitting--Coca-Cola CEO Douglas Daft at one point turned for advice to investment legend Warren Buffett, who sits on Coke's board. What would happen, Daft wondered, if Coke suddenly stopped giving Wall Street quarterly earnings estimates? Buffett answered that Coke's shares would be more volatile and some investors would sell but that these were prices worth paying. Daft would forever "be free from that fiction," Buffett said...
...each two-to three-minute film, Wallace concocts a daft labor-saving robot--meant to serve dinner or overcome a burglar or produce Christmas cards or vacuum up cracker crumbs--while Gromit watches in mute exasperation or buries his snout in a favorite book (one is Men Are from Mars, Dogs Are from Pluto). Something usually goes explosively wrong, but that doesn't dampen either Wallace's enthusiasm or Gromit's obligation to restore the status...
...this 50th year of the Queen's reign dissolved in a chorus of public amazement and anger. Charles ordered an inquiry into the allegations concerning his employees and actions, to be conducted by a tough criminal barrister. But he put his private secretary in overall charge, which seemed a daft way to defeat charges of a cover...
...never been short on marketing campaigns. From Santa Claus commercials to the giant Coke bottle looming above Times Square, the corporation has done everything imaginable to convince consumers that Coke is a wholesome, friendly, downright American institution, the “good guys” of beverages. CEO Douglas Daft and his marketing team hoped to perpetuate this image in June 2001 when they began their campaign to become the poster-child corporation of UNAIDS by promising HIV/AIDS treatment to its employees in Africa. Coke declared, “Coca-Cola is completely committed to the future of the African...
...members, however, don't make that distinction. Virtually every FORTUNE 500 CEO has made certain that women and minorities are represented on his or her board of directors. Coca-Cola, which settled a high-profile racial-discrimination case in 2000, tried to intervene with Augusta, but CEO Douglas Daft got nowhere. "We enjoyed our one-year sponsorship of the Masters," the company said in a statement. Citigroup told Burk in a letter that "we have communicated our views privately to the management of the [Masters] tournament. We believe that such a dialogue is the most constructive approach." The company also...