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  • Singaporean CEOs who want to have a shower and take a nice, leisurely crap, with all the sound effects, without having to hear and smell other travelers doing the same, can come here and put it all on their corporate travel card.†   (source)
  • And a man named Al Rich sends this: Steve, I'm the CEO of the Pearl River Piano Group America, Ltd. We are the western world arm of the Guanghou Pearl River Piano Group, the largest piano builder and second largest musical instrument builder in the world.†   (source)
  • Three decades later he had advanced to CEO and COO of the company.†   (source)
  • But in early 2002, the new CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan, contacted the study's authors.†   (source)
  • Arthur Blessing believed, our CEO, that true feeling flows upward from the streets, fully accessible to corporate adaptation.†   (source)
  • McCown had been CEO of the Boise Cascade company and built the corporation's business from $100 million to $6 billion in six years, before it splintered and split apart.†   (source)
  • I wasn't home two minutes when Sloane Hagen, a typical toned, BlackBerry-wired, Evian-swigging, fake blonde, belly-pierced daughter of a CEO and my real date for the dance, called my cell.†   (source)
  • Zayd's grandfather on his dad's side (a patrician who was chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison Power) taught Zayd how to hunt.†   (source)
  • 'CEO,' he admitted.†   (source)
  • JEFFREY HOLLENDER is president and CEO of Seventh Generation, a producer of environmentally safe household products.†   (source)
  • Roarke, president and CEO.†   (source)
  • The angel is on the leather couch in what must have been some CEO's corner office.†   (source)
  • His neatly clipped silver hair and tailored suits and unmitigating stare of eyes and trim old body said it all over in simple, clear language: Chief Executive Officer.†   (source)
  • In 2005, Kay and I sold majority interest of Duck Commander to Korie and Willie, and Willie became the company's CEO.†   (source)
  • Larry Sills, age 72, is nothing like what I imagined the CEO of one of America's largest aftermarket auto-parts companies would look like.†   (source)
  • Nor was there any reference to one Zizi al-Bakari, investment manager for the House of Saud and CEO of Jihad, Incorporated.†   (source)
  • Even though Phil started Duck Commander and is considered a legend by duck hunters everywhere, he was really never comfortable in the role of CEO.†   (source)
  • He wasn't quite sure about his newest client, but when the CEO of Verizon calls and suggests that you arrange a meeting it was considered wise to do so.†   (source)
  • CEO Gladstone and many others considered Kassad and the other FORCE commanders as saviors.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel asks of the Pearl River CEO, his face pinched with doubt.†   (source)
  • Martin Vanger appeared diligent in his capacity as CEO of the Vanger Corporation.†   (source)
  • CEO Gladstone warned me when I was chosen for the pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • Harriet is going to succeed me as CEO in February.†   (source)
  • The CEO tapped a stylus against her lower lip.†   (source)
  • In 1976 I retired and Martin took over as CEO.†   (source)
  • Henrik Vanger has become CEO again, and he doesn't answer my calls.†   (source)
  • CEO Gladstone removed the stem of grass from her mouth and regarded it.†   (source)
  • He knew that she would be CEO someday despite her late start in poli tics.†   (source)
  • It took no great analytical skill to conclude that the corporate CEO was a man with problems.†   (source)
  • This time CEO Gladstone did register shock.†   (source)
  • He'll be back as CEO and publisher later this year."†   (source)
  • Rachel says that she thinks Raben Dowell is Senate CEO and this is the year A.D. 2711.†   (source)
  • "This is where Martin lives—Harriet's brother and the Vanger Corporation CEO.†   (source)
  • The firm's CEO was dead, and the former CEO was seriously ill after a heart attack.†   (source)
  • The CEO of the All Thing had wished her well in a forty-minute speech.†   (source)
  • But tell me, how does it feel to be CEO again?†   (source)
  • Instead of exacerbating the issue, he invited Milton Security's CEO to lunch.†   (source)
  • Among my CEO sample, almost a third were six foot two or taller.†   (source)
  • A week earlier she had had lunch with the CEO of the biggest media company in Sweden.†   (source)
  • Someone once said to Korie that as the CEO of Duck Commander, I'm not accountable to anyone.†   (source)
  • No one ever says dismissively of a potential CEO candidate that he's too short.†   (source)
  • CEO Borgsjö arrived at 2:00 and gathered the employees for a brief memorial to Morander.†   (source)
  • "You don't think small, do you?" the CEO of RAE snapped.†   (source)
  • President and CEO of Roarke Industries, established 2042.†   (source)
  • His client the next day could be a fast-food CEO trying to deal with an E. coli outbreak.†   (source)
  • Among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, that number is 58 percent.†   (source)
  • We have to be free to examine any chairman of the board or CEO, even if he happens to be her boss.†   (source)
  • "Ja," the CEO of STX said, laughing and slapping the table.†   (source)
  • This is a once-in-a-lifetime offer, the CEO had said.†   (source)
  • You're the CEO of a substantial industrial concern—two concerns, actually.†   (source)
  • Then he called Dragan Armansky, CEO of Milton Security, who was at his home in Lidingö.†   (source)
  • You need to go call your CEO or whatever and tell him we're going to need a bunch of stuff.†   (source)
  • "That hasn't worked out for all CEOs," Nathan pointed out.†   (source)
  • He's also the CEO of Svenska Morgon-Posten and owns about 10 percent of it."†   (source)
  • "All CEOs don't own megawatt orbital lasers," Tyler said, grinning.†   (source)
  • We've come across a story that will sink your CEO.†   (source)
  • " 'Russell Pickett, the controversial CEO and founder of Pickett Engineering, wasn't home when a search warrant was served by the Indianapolis police Friday morning, and he hasn't been home since.†   (source)
  • I have verified the signatures to be those of Samuel W. Westing and his two witnesses: Julian R. Eastman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Westing Paper Products Corporation, and Sidney Sikes, M.D., Coroner of Westing County.†   (source)
  • To the lower left of Ty was Tom Stenton, the world-striding CEO and self-described Capitalist Prime—he loved the Transformers—wearing an Italian suit and grinning like the wolf that ate Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother.†   (source)
  • Smith, the founder and CEO of Federal Express, as well as the Orange Bowl's sponsor, was a good friend of the Tuohys.†   (source)
  • The google hits related to Davis were overwhelmingly about his father—"Pickett Engineering CEO Reveals in Interview He Won't Leave a Dime to His Teenage Children," etc. Davis hadn't updated his Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or blog since the disappearance, and searches for his two usernames, dallgoodman and davisnotdave02, turned up only links to other people.†   (source)
  • When CEO Yevshensky allowed King Billy of Asquith to recolonize the planet, it almost precipitated a true secession of AIs from the Web.†   (source)
  • Like everyone else except maybe the current Senate CEO or the Als" garbage removers, I had no idea where the TechnoCore was.†   (source)
  • How could I write a chapter about Martin's period as CEO and pretend that I don't know what's in his basement?†   (source)
  • You have to go and tell Henrik, and you have to call a special meeting of the board and do all those things you chaps do when your CEO dies.†   (source)
  • The CEO of the Senate and All Thing, chief officer for a government which spanned almost two hundred worlds and billions of people, stared at me in silence for a long moment.†   (source)
  • Not during the parades and parties of graduation, nor as the class marched in a final Olympian review before the Hegemony CEO, saluting from his red-lit levitation deck.†   (source)
  • He is…well, in spite of everything he is CEO of what's left of the Vanger Corporation, which I suppose is to his credit."†   (source)
  • I did not tell her that they had promised to give me a device which would open the Time Tombs and allow the Shrike free rein… CEO Gladstone had long talks with me.†   (source)
  • But the Vanger Corporation is international, and we could certainly have an American CEO who doesn't speak a word of Swedish…it's only business, when all's said and done."†   (source)
  • There was an elegantly furnished waiting room but I barely had time to sit down on an authentic pre-Hegira de Kooning before an aide appeared and ushered me into the CEO's private office.†   (source)
  • The parsonage used to be here, but that building was destroyed by a fire in the seventies, and Martin built this house in 1978 when he took over as CEO.†   (source)
  • What's going to happen is that Henrik will step in as CEO pro tem from his sickbed until we hire either someone from outside or someone from within the family…"†   (source)
  • The fleet movements were detectable as soon as the ships used their Hawking drives, and if the Consul were the spy, the CEO's revelation might be a way to scare him off.†   (source)
  • "You have been chosen to join the pilgrimage to the Shrike," said the image of the old CEO whom the press loved to compare to Lincoln or Churchill or Alvarez-Temp or whatever other pre-Hegira legend was in historical vogue at the time.†   (source)
  • She told him what Martin Vanger's chamber of horrors looked like and how she had found Mikael with a noose around his neck and the CEO of the Vanger Corporation standing in front of his naked body.†   (source)
  • Meina Gladstone was CEO.†   (source)
  • But she would be a perfect CEO.†   (source)
  • During those first months I did book and fax signing on more than a hundred worlds; I appeared on "The AllNet Now!" show with Marmon Hamlit; I met CEO Senister Per6t and All Thing Speaker Drury Fein aswell as a score of senators; I spoke to the Interplanetary Society of PEN Women and to the Lusus Writers" Union; I was given honorary degrees at the University of New Earth and at Cambridge Two; I was feted, interviewed, imaged, reviewed (favorably), bioed (unauthorized), lionized,…†   (source)
  • Fifteen years later he became CEO.†   (source)
  • His taking on a role of social critic had actually transformed him into a prickly guest on TV sofas—he was always the one invited to comment whenever any CEO was caught with a golden parachute worth billions.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he assumed that Blomkvist was one of the family since he was working for his great-uncle; and like the former CEO, Martin took the view that the family members only had themselves to blame for the situation in which the company found itself.†   (source)
  • But compared with the half billion that disappeared from Skanska or the CEO of ABB's golden parachute of more than a billion kronor—which really upset people—this doesn't seem to be much to write about," Blomkvist said.†   (source)
  • The news that veteran industrialist Henrik Vanger will be part owner and will have a seat on the board of directors of Millennium comes the same day that the former CEO and publisher Mikael Blomkvist begins serving his three-month sentence for the libel of businessman Hans-Erik Wennerström.†   (source)
  • Who will be the new CEO?†   (source)
  • He drew this conclusion because time after time, without the least objection, so many financial reporters seemed content to regurgitate the statements issued by CEOs and stock-market speculators—even when this information was plainly misleading or wrong.†   (source)
  • Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in twenty thousand people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, she had a real job, carrying out real investigations for Dragan Armansky, Milton's CEO.†   (source)
  • "I don't personally know him, but his name is Gil Stabel and he is the CEO of a company called Fortiscom."†   (source)
  • Without speaking, he handed Colin a note written on stationery embossed with the words HOLLIS P. WELLS / CEO & PRESIDENT, GUTSHOT TEXTILES:†   (source)
  • Shortly afterward, the idea of This I Believe was born at a business lunch attended by four powerful men: Ward Wheelock; William S. Paley, the founder and CEO of CBS; Donald Thornburgh, general manager of the local CBS affiliate in Philadelphia; and Edward R. Murrow, arguably the most famous--and most respected--broadcaster in the world at that time.†   (source)
  • And although I have many job titles--CEO, Executive Producer, Senior Consultant, Foundation Chairman, Bad Actor--the one I am most proud of is Professional Skateboarder.†   (source)
  • For the CEO with the bad hamburger meat, Sandman engages in "outrage reduction"; for the environmentalists, it's "outrage increase."†   (source)
  • Hassan unfolded the paper, and Colin leaned in to read the caption: FORTISCOM CEO DIES IN PLANE CRASH.†   (source)
  • I didn't immediately start making rogue decisions when I became CEO, and I wasn't interested in changing the way we'd done business for the previous thirty-something years.†   (source)
  • Except he's not the CEO of Fortiscom."†   (source)
  • He had spent just three years with the CPS—and never in a job important enough to have his own secretary—before becoming its CEO.†   (source)
  • The grand exception to all of these trends is American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault, who is both on the short side—five foot nine—and black.†   (source)
  • The grand exception to all of these trends is American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault, who is both on the short side—five foot nine—and black.†   (source)
  • Berger called Magnus Borgsjö, CEO of Svenska Morgon-Posten, as soon as she reached the office on Tuesday morning.†   (source)
  • He's not the CEO of anything.†   (source)
  • So it isn't just the boldface names—inside-trading CEOs and pill-popping ballplayers and perk-abusing politicians—who cheat.†   (source)
  • The CEO had explained that if the salary offer was the reason for her hesitation, she was probably in a position to negotiate an even higher figure.†   (source)
  • I polled about half of the companies on the Fortune 500 list—the list of the largest corporations in the United States—asking each company questions about its CEO.†   (source)
  • "The Eighth wasn't quite so sweet, and maybe I should have known it since her name, Katherine Barker, anagrams into Heart Breaker, Ink, like she's a veritable CEO of Dumping, but anyway she asked me out on a date and then I said yes and then she called me a freak and said I didn't have any pubes and that she would never seriously go out with me—all of which, to be fair, was true.†   (source)
  • Berger did not care if Borgsjö was or was not chairman of the board of Vitavara Inc. What mattered to her was that he was the CEO of SMP.†   (source)
  • "Nobody else in the Solar System would have the balls to make it." the Boeing CEO said, shaking his head.†   (source)
  • In the press conference announcing the launch of New Coke, the company's CEO, Roberto C. Goizueta, called the new product "the surest move the company's ever made," and there seemed little reason to doubt what he said.†   (source)
  • Bublanski was at Milton Security in a meeting with its CEO, Armansky, and two of his staff, Fräklund and Bohman.†   (source)
  • Of the tens of millions of American men below five foot six, a grand total of ten in my sample have reached the level of CEO, which says that being short is probably as much of a handicap to corporate success as being a woman or an African American.†   (source)
  • The second was an hour-long meeting with the CEO, Magnus Borgsjö; SMP's CFO, Christer Sellberg; and Ulf Flodin, the budget chief.†   (source)
  • "I just told SpaceCom and my CFO and my CEO and everybody else in the 'black' world that we can pump an exawatt.†   (source)
  • The results were embarrassing: CEO—man; chairman of the board—man; editor in chief—man; foreign editor—man; managing editor—man … et cetera, until eventually the first woman turned up.†   (source)
  • Magnus Borgsjö would be asked to vacate his position as CEO, effective immediately, and Anders Holm would be appointed acting editor in chief.†   (source)
  • Here with us is Charles Carter, CEO of Roundtree Investments, one of the many investment firms which bought into Apollo Mining.†   (source)
  • A highly successful CEO like Jack Welch may entitle his memoir Jack: Straight from the Gut, but he then makes it clear that what set him apart wasn't just his gut but carefully worked-out theories of management, systems, and principles as well.†   (source)
  • Ten 'ears later, he was the CEO.†   (source)
  • Svenska Morgon-Posten's CEO and chairman of the board, Magnus Borgsjö, had capitulated and tendered his resignation.†   (source)
  • Of the tens of millions of American men below five foot six, a grand total of ten in my sample have reached the level of CEO, which says that being short is probably as much of a handicap to corporate success as being a woman or an African American.†   (source)
  • He cast an entreating glance at Borgsjö, but the CEO was intently studying Berger's nine-point programme.†   (source)
  • James Raskob, President, CEO and Chief Engineer of AMTAC had managed to keep the company together, with a lot of layoffs, admittedly, despite the bad times.†   (source)
  • Given that the average American male is five foot nine, that means that CEOs as a group have about three inches on the rest of their sex.†   (source)
  • They were CEO Magnus Borgsjö, assistant editor Fredriksson, assistant front-page editor Magnusson, and culture editor Sebastian Strandlund.†   (source)
  • But they are also almost all tall: in my sample, I found that on average, male CEOs were just a shade under six feet tall.†   (source)
  • There was an MBA with extensive experience of terrestrial mining and materials sales as the CEO, an Army general as chief of operations. mostly devoted to the increasingly complex task of moving light around, and even a chief science officer who oversaw production of the SAPL components and an increasingly large team of people who studied better ways to move it and use it.†   (source)
  • The company went under in six months, and several years later some members of the "people's militia" in Hacker Republic, who did not easily forget an enemy, were still haunting the former CEO.†   (source)
  • Magnus Borgsjö is the CEO.†   (source)
  • C#12 CHAPTER 12 Sunday, May 15–Monday, May 16 Superintendent Torsten Edklinth, director of Constitutional Protection at the Security Police, slowly swirled his glass of red wine and listened attentively to the CEO of Milton Security, who had called out of the blue and insisted Edklinth come to Sunday dinner at his place on Lidingö.†   (source)
  • Berger studied the CEO.†   (source)
  • All the company's secrets and emails—along with some fake documents that might lead people to think that its CEO was involved in tax fraud—were gleefully posted on the Net, along with information about the CEO's now not-so-secret mistress and pictures from a party in Hollywood in which he could be seen snorting cocaine.†   (source)
  • So, one fine morning I ascended the flight of granite steps, with the President's commission in my pocket, and was introduced to the corps of gentlemen who were to aid me in my weighty responsibility as chief executive officer of the Custom-House.†   (source)
  • There is Gorgias of Leontium, and Prodicus of Ceos, and Hippias of Elis, who go the round of the cities, and are able to persuade the young men to leave their own citizens by whom they might be taught for nothing, and come to them whom they not only pay, but are thankful if they may be allowed to pay them.†   (source)
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