Word: execs
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...Andy Hornby, the former chief exec of HBOS, which was taken over last year by rival Lloyds to prevent a run on the bank, said he was "extremely sorry for the turn of events." Dennis Stevenson, Hornby's chairman at HBOS - which, along with Lloyds, got a $25 billion bailout from the government in return for 43% of the combined group - was "profoundly and unreservedly" apologetic. And really giving it his all, Fred Goodwin, ex-boss of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), rescued by British taxpayers last fall with an even bigger bailout, said he "could not be more...
...Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Pollan lays out the case against modern agribusiness in a very persuasive, prescriptive way. But he still argues solely at the level of the intellect, and reason—as any economist or Exxon exec knows—can just as easily be turned to the defense of one’s own interests...
...Apple's Steve Jobs: "At one point, [EMI's top new-media exec Ted] Cohen remembers John Rose, then an EMI vice president, writing demographic sales statistics on a thirty-foot-long whiteboard in an Apple conference room. Afterward, Jobs stood up, walked to the whiteboard, which was entirely empty save for the one square foot where Rose had scribbled, and erased it completely. Rose was undeterred by this blatant power maneuver. 'John, God bless him, erased what Steve Jobs wrote and wrote something else over that,' Cohen recalls. 'They were erasing each other's words for about ten minutes...
...gruesome tricks - all of it in alleys and buildings swarming with fearful Palestinian families. On the Israeli side, reservists - who make up more than 5% of the Israeli fighting force - will bear part of the brunt. In one Fire Mountain unit, there's a gardener, a lawyer, an ad exec, an electrical engineer and a redheaded Israeli-American actor from Beverley Hills named Gregory Ross. "I'm so not into thrill seeking," says Ross. "But I'm here to protect my people...
Nancy Killefer The McKinsey exec was tapped as chief performance officer, a newly created post that oversees government efficiency...