Word: firmness
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...Will this theater strategy pay off? "I give them credit, because boxing needs to try something," says Marc Ganis, president of SportsCorp LLC, a consulting firm. Overall movie theater attendance has actually risen during the recession, so the timing seems right. But Ganis worries that sports consumption has become too personalized - in the living room, on the computer, on the cell phone - for fans to abruptly change their habits. "The days when a mass audience went to movie theaters to watch a live event have come and gone," he says...
...would advise an insurance company to deny a broad liability insurance if it doesn't fire a CEO for lying," says Nell Minow, a co-founder of corporate-governance-research firm the Corporate Library. "If a CEO is lying, then...
...least temporarily, executives of financial-services companies who are found in violation of securities-fraud laws because it is considered to be more damaging to the credibility of the market. In the 1990s, several executives of Salomon Brothers were suspended from being officers of a securities firm after they failed to disclose big losses by one of the firm's bond traders...
...green screen computers and clunky recording devices serve as fond reminders of early 90s technology. Even Whitacre’s paranoid fantasies are very much a product of his decade; at one point he compares his own situation to that of Tom Cruise in “The Firm,” which opened in 1993. In nearly every scene, the screen is bathed in brown and yellow tints, adding to the warm, nostalgic feel of the movie.Unfortunately, the comedy of Whitacre’s free association wears off over the course of the film. As it becomes apparent that...
...followed the nation's worst day of military casualties since a November 2003 car-bomb attack in Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, killed 19 Italian soldiers. That death toll was cited when Italy eventually pulled out of Iraq in 2006, but at the time of the Nasiriyah attack, Berlusconi held firm to Italy's military commitment and ironclad alliance with then U.S. President George W. Bush. (See Berlusconi's worst gaffes...