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...Kong and Macau Affairs Office in Beijing, Liao Hui, felt it wasn't necessary to push the bill through last week, as Tung was demanding. Tien then said the Liberal Party's key eight votes on the bill were in danger, forcing Tung to amend the bill. When Tien quit the Cabinet, Tung realized he had, at least temporarily, lost the match. He deferred the bill?and had to wonder why Beijing was trying to undercut...
Soon after, the future CEO of Time, Inc. applied to Harvard Business School. He was admitted without even an undergraduate degree—but he quit the school after a year...
That's certainly Mullen's plan. He gave up ambitions of being a medical doctor in college, then quit the pill business at Glaxo to get in on "the hot emerging business" at Biogen in 1989. Now he hopes to be remembered as the CEO who hurried business sense to the industry "without snuffing out innovation." He's a nuts-and-bolts guy who came up on the operations side, not as a scientist. His big coups at Biogen were beefing up manufacturing capacity and creating the industry's most extensive sales force. So he's well suited...
...Cambodian Prime Minister, responding to a U.N. appeal that he quit smoking...
...directors can make binding decisions. The affair is particularly embarrassing for Viénot, a distinguished banker who authored two reports on French corporate governance in the 1990s. He quit the board last fall and isn't commenting. As Vivendi is finding to its cost, even the best French expert can get things wrong. Hmm ... This may be a bit too fair Britain announced plans to ban age discrimination in the workplace by October 2006. In line with an E.U. directive, it will outlaw mandatory retirement ages, end ageist job advertising, and allow Britons the choice of working until they...