Word: robert
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...been paid without Bank of America's consent. AIG (AIG) may be the example that best makes the case. As the company, which has been the world's premier insurance firm posted greater and greater losses on its derivative investments, the board pushed out Martin Sullivan in favor of Robert Willumstad in June 2008. Willumstad was clearly at least partially responsible for the trouble at AIG since he was the non-executive chairman before being made CEO. He made a further mess of the AIG problems because he was slow to address them and was himself fired in September...
...hitters are avoiding the trickier parts of Afghanistan. It seems that NATO's reputation is being built more on British (and Dutch) sacrifice than anyone else's. And while young Britons are dying in Afghanistan, it ill behoves NATO's nonperformers to dance a victory jig. Robert F. Birkett, DRINKSTONE GREEN, ENGLAND...
...Neill and Rouches. Sophomore catcher Tyler Albright also had a strong performance with three hits and an RBI, but Harvard struggled to match the timeliness of Brown’s offense, which always seemed to produce with runners in scoring position.A two-out RBI triple by Robert Papenhause and a three-run home run by leadoff man Steve Daniels off of freshman starter Brent Suter pushed the Bears’ lead to 6-1 before the Crimson began to fight back. Suter, who shouldered seven earned runs through 6.2 innings, struggled at times but settled down to keep his squad...
...accused of doing any wrongdoing and he's not likely to face any criminal or civil charges as it relates to this. And the pending investigation was something that he brought up to us." - Robert Gibbs, White House spokesman, expressing the Obama Administration's confidence in Rattner, even after the investigation related to his firm came to light, (Reuters, April...
...military - as well as the European and NATO officials attempting to smash the pirate networks - the shipping companies' business-as-usual approach works against military strategy. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said as much, when he appealed to companies to stop paying ransoms, during a speech at the naval war college in Newport, Rhode Island on Friday. "Clearly, if they didn't pay the ransoms, we would be in a stronger position," he said...