Word: gents
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...sustain earnings-per-share growth of 15%. Scott, who earns less than most other Fortune 500 CEOs, was leaving a store not long ago when he stopped to chat with one of the many senior citizens who work as greeters. They are a fearless lot, and the old gent teased the boss with a question: "Did you give everyone a big raise?" Scott returned a look of mock horror. "Are you kidding me?" he said. "This is Wal-Mart...
...RESIGNED. CHRISTOPHER GENT, 54, cricket-loving chief executive of Britain's Vodafone Group who rode the telecom boom and transformed the small FTSE company into the world's leading mobile-phone operator; in London. Vodafone chairman Lord MacLaurin said Gent stepped down over media criticism of his $19.8 million payout last year, when Vodafone recorded a $21.6 billion loss and its share price fell by a third. Gent's successor is Arun Sarin, head of Vodafone's U.S. ventures, who takes over in July...
...barbed confrontations of "Amy's View" and this two-hander. Some theatergoers wanted to follow this trajectory; most wanted to see the two Dames dish. Even when "Breath" was in previews, scalpers were getting $300 for a single Saturday night ticket. (We bought two for $100 each from a gent outside the theater. Row X, in the back, but we were, after all, in the same big room with the stars. Maggie is the taller...
...neighbors in the posh Tuscan resort of Forte dei Marmi, Tokhtakhounov is a courteous, quiet gent often surrounded by gorgeous cars and fast women. To the Italian finance police and the American FBI, which have been tailing him for at least a year, he is a suspect in drug dealing, arms trafficking and money laundering--an international sleaze king with influential friends among Russian celebrities and Kremlin politicos...
...Presley's contract to RCA Victor for $25,000. He says he never regretted the decision, never looked back. He soon had another rockabilly prodigy, Carl Perkins, whose "Blue Suede Shoes" kicked some serious chart butt: #1 country & western, #2 pop and rhythm 'n blues. Johnny Cash, the Arkansas gent with a grave voice and a lifer's stare, recorded "I Walk the Line": #1 country, #17 pop. Roy Orbison, who would not fully flower till the '60s, did an early stretch at Sun, recording some goofy rockers and writing a hit song (for the Everly Brothers) about his girl...