Word: gents
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...Bottom Line There is some idea in Britain that behind every great fortune there is a great crime. CHRISTOPHER GENT,outgoing Vodafone CEO, defending his €3.3 million pay package as he presented his last annual report at the company
...Christopher Gent Vodafone CEO Pay: $3.8 million Share price...
...than the U.S. average and under one-fifth of what disgraced Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski earned. That's because European shareholders and unions have long campaigned against corporate excess. But with stock prices falling, the demands have become more strident, hitting even CEOs like Jean-Pierre Garnier and Christopher Gent, who have finally begun to heave their stock prices in the right direction. But at least they had a chance to start before being attacked - on Thursday, Britain's National Association of Pension Funds launched a preemptive strike on the drugstore chain Boots' plan...
...collision of small lives with great events, the film?produced by Jackie and directed by Mabel Cheung?could make a movie epic or a top-rated, multigenerational series on a Hong Kong TV channel. Traces also has a diamond-in-the-rough star: Jackie's father. A jaunty, salty gent, still vigorous in his mid-80s, Charles carries the narrative. He was born as Fang Daolong in 1915 in Shandong province. A disorderly kid ("I was a real brat"), he became an orderly to a KMT general?until he accidentally shot a loaded gun and was cashiered...
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!" --With reporting by William Boston/Berlin, Neil Gough/Shenzhen and Rita Healy/Denver