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...There are a thousand frustrations in making it happen anyway, see. My life has not been limited to the business world. For example, getting the North Vietnamese to change the treatment our POWS received was not a corporate event. That's just something that I had to start from scratch and get millions of people from this country and around the world to express anger about, and they changed the treatment, and more men survived. So can we agree that was not a ceo giving orders...
...independent enough because chief executive officers often serve as chairmen of boards. The conflict of interest can be eliminated, they argue, by preventing the CEO from wearing both hats. Consultant Graef | Crystal charges that compensation committees are often loaded with other high- paid CEOs. "It's a cozy you-scratch-my-back-I'll-scratch-yours arrangement," he says. "If you're a CEO, you don't want Mother Teresa or the Sisters of Charity on your compensation committee...
...Player gives credence to Oscar Levant's epigram remark about Hollywood: "Scratch off the phony tinsel at the top, and you uncover the real tinsel at the heart...
...very good week, on the other hand, to be one of the U.S. Attorneys or FBI agents who for six years had tried and tried again to scratch the Teflon Don. Each time the elusive leader of the nation's most powerful crime family persuaded the jury he was nothing more than a misunderstood plumbing salesman. But this time the government's case looked perfect. The witnesses did not lose their memories on the stand. The tapes were clear. The underboss spilled the grim details. The jury was protected. "The Don is covered with Velcro," said the assistant director...
...they're going to be coming fromsomewhere with no problems," Appiah says. "They'renot starting from scratch."Crimson File PhotoHENRY LOUIS GATES...