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...because the defense industry--and corporations in general--is under greater public scrutiny these days, CEOs tend to pay for their blunders. Last year Boeing fired its CEO for having an affair with a subordinate--certainly a lesser infraction than the military procurement scandal that claimed his predecessor, Phil Condit, who, although not personally implicated, left because it happened on his watch. Swanson succeeds a CEO who agreed in March to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission over accounting irregularities. But there's nothing phony about Raytheon's record under Swanson. Sales grew 8% last year; the stock price...
...advice and “Don’t holler.”)But it’s goodbye to the good times, too. Four years after a pair of red folders and a boatload of desperation first brought us together, we have run a marathon, seen Phil Collins in concert, and had full sex with three of the same girls (this last part is false). We’ve also never voted in a UC election, never been to an a cappella concert, and never worn rash guards and Hawaiian shirts to Mather Lather. All in all, we can?...
...PHIL ELBAZ Pittsburgh...
...DIED. Phil Walden, 66, brash impresario and co-founder of Capricorn Records, based in Macon, Ga., a label known during its 1970s heyday as the citadel of Southern rock; of cancer; in Atlanta. Intent on providing a haven for an array of blues, country and pop artists, the former manager for Otis Redding launched the Allman Brothers Band and popularized such acts as the Dixie Dregs, the Marshall Tucker Band and the Charlie Daniels Band...
...Those are mere technicalities for the many people who view Ryan as a "political prostitute," as former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm described him while testifying about how Ryan had allegedly pilfered $100,000 when he was the state chair of Gramm's reelection campaign in 1996. Among those sitting in the packed courtroom was the Rev. Duane "Scott" Willis and his wife, Janet, whose six young children were killed in 1994 when the van they were driving on a Wisconsin interstate exploded after a piece of a nearby truck dislodged and pierced its gas tank. When it was later discovered...