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...raises serious questions. After all, BSkyB wasn't falling, so why mess with a winning formula? Or is Ball leaving of his own accord? Does he have a better offer? Is James Murdoch best qualified to run one of Europe's largest public media companies? And does the potential shake-up mean that BSkyB's best days are behind it? One thing is certain: 47-year-old Ball, who earned north of $3 million in Sky's fiscal year ended June 30, did an enviable job. When Ball took over, Sky was in an uncertain state, facing genuine competition from...
...APPOINTED. HENRY TANG and AMBROSE LEE, as Hong Kong's financial and security secretaries, respectively, after a shake-up of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's Cabinet last month; in Hong Kong. The appointments followed the resignation of two officials after large protests against Tung's leadership and proposed security legislation...
...they hadn't stayed so close to the wall. July 1982 Michael Fagan breaks into the Queen's bedroom at Buckingham Palace. Police ignore a phone call for help, so the Queen chats with him for 10 minutes before alerting staff. Home Secretary William Whitelaw announces a "major shake-up" in palace security. Members of the opposition Labour Party call Whitelaw's comment that the incident represented a serious failure in security arrangements "the understatement of the year." January 1994 Cambodian student David Kang runs toward Prince Charles and fires two shots from a starting pistol at an event...
Despite this nod to his family’s tradition, Golden’s success led to a major shake-up of the assumptions of his powerful family, Anders says...
...just factory workers and those in the beleaguered tech industry who are taking their lumps. Steve Doppelt, 36, is an advertising creative director in New York City. With his employer, Publicis Groupe, in the throes of a major shake-up, Doppelt last month left to take a similar job at Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners--for 10% less pay. O.K., he isn't starving. The new job pays more than $200,000 a year, and Doppelt is regarded as a rising star. But he no longer has a secretary, and he is working in a cubicle instead of an office...