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The taxpayers are paying more and getting less. Having the state executive of Missouri driving back and forth between Jefferson City and Springfield multiple times a week is an inefficient use of our governor's time, especially when the taxpayers are footing that bill.

The symptom was executive pay being non-aligned with shareholder interests and our response was to create an accountability mechanism for directors.

I've been an executive branch official my entire public career and, for both constitutional and historical reasons, the executive branch appropriately has typically opposed automatic, non-discretionary directions from all of you esteemed ladies and gentlemen. That's our position. I support it emphatically.

I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.

I wanted to be put in line with the top earners at the football club. I've left it in City's hands, they know my situation - I've made it very clear where I stand. I was told by the chief executive that it was the final offer so I've had no other option. There are no negotiations, so as far as I am concerned my future lies elsewhere.

Ted Turner's legendary record as a media pioneer and executive at Turner Broadcasting and Time Warner speaks for itself. He is a visionary leader who has made an extraordinary contribution to this company and, indeed, to the world at large.

Sandra brings extensive experience in corporate, securities, business practice, and intellectual property law, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and contract negotiations to Mercury. Sandra is a valuable addition to our executive team, and I am pleased to have her join Mercury in this important role.

real CEO, an executive officer. We want him to start to leverage outside more, we want him to get into his networks he has. ... He is still in charge.

Our conclusion is that it is not a reasonable exercise of business judgment to go forward with an executive compensation plan one week before a motion (to abrogate collective bargaining) dealing with one of the main issues of this case, which is labor peace.

Our experience is in the consumer space, now our next challenge is in the enterprise. Today mobility is something of an executive toy, and we think that's about to change.

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A few years ago, if a European regulator had raised two eyebrows or even one, the chief executive would have backed off. The courage wasn't there. Now, in a sense, the king is naked.

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

After good dialogue with members of the executive board, I decided that it was in the best interests of the membership to conduct a secret ballot vote amongst our player representatives and executive officers so that there are absolutely no questions regarding my election as executive director and general counsel.

The most positive thing about this executive order is that the government is practicing what it's preaching.

Acquiring grants has been difficult lately, ... However, community groups are beginning to help us out. Lester Johnson, chief executive officer for Douglass National Bank is giving money to help run the clubs, such as the Greater Pentecostal Community Family Club in the area.

some solutions to ensure clearer accountability between the executive and the administrative arms of government.

One couldn't ask for better support in an executive director. I am able to focus on what the dream can be, not how much the dream will cost me.

Once the schedule's been absolutely rubber-stamped, we'll seek the advice of the Scottish Executive and the Foreign Office,

Once the ICC executive board has received this report, we will be in a position to identify what further steps cricket can take to tackle this issue before it spreads beyond the incidents that have taken place in Australia.

The mood in the executive suites I visit is generally optimistic.

During question hour, executive officials are not mandated to appear. But during an inquiry in aid of legislation, they are mandated to appear except when executive privilege is properly invoked by the president.

deferred to Congress, the executive and to legal precedent - in some unspecified mix.

Despite the Obama administration's proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of surveillance technologies it is sourcing and purchasing - or about what other governments are purchasing the same technology.

AOL Time Warner -- you've just had a major shakeout. AOL was just not worth the value they paid, and this whole Internet portal media strategy has altered, but it hasn't gone away, ... But something new is happening. You have a new chief executive officer and the stock has been toxic waste in portfolios. Everybody's dumped it and you're not at a valuation level. It's very interesting.

Anybody who needs to do this, who feels they need to help by raising money, must come into my office and sign a specific form and carry it around with them, ... It is a document which says they have my authority as executive director of the Red Cross to do what they have to do in the way of fundraising.

Any effort to improve relations between the Executive Branch and the members of the Supreme Court must be undertaken with extreme care to ensure that there is no appearance of an effort to affect the deliberations or decisions of the Justices, ... The dignity of the Court must also be maintained, and the Justices should under no circumstances be made to feel that they are being used as part of any political campaign or an effort to achieve any political end.

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

A president who believed that America's greatness is recoverable and expandable - a chief executive determined to lead us back to national restoration - would reject the crippling notions of national impotency that Obama has embraced.

An executive wants to know where the company is and where it's going. Tactically, they still need the important numbers so they can run the business, but in general they're looking for trending information that enables them to better understand the market their company services to better determine where they should make large, long-term investments in the sales department.

An executive might reach retirement with a taxable pension, taxable 401(k) distributions, and taxable deferred compensation distributions. We find great value in having various pots from which to draw cash flow in retirement. That way, our clients can help determine their tax burden based on which pots (nonqualified or qualified) we have them draw from to meet various expenses in retirement. As with most things, balance is the key.

As an executive producer who's not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.

As a constitutional matter, I share your view that censure of the president would violate the careful balance of separation of powers and the scheme laid out by the framers (of the Constitution) to address the issue of executive misconduct,

The bottom line is they were going after a national icon, and if you struck one or the other, the horror, the death and destruction, coupled with the notion of vulnerability to either the executive or legislative branch, would have accomplished their means of adding another level of anxiety or fear in this country.

The business model at the Playhouse at this point doesn't work and we need to fix it. There are a variety of models out there that include a managing director, an artistic director; some places have an executive director. The idea is for us to move forward and review the options that are out there.

The Bush campaign is claiming that they've been working hard and they've had everything in place and they're ready to go and they're going to be able to pull it off. But it's really complicated. Thousands of people are going to get new jobs. The whole city and the whole executive branch are changing.

The Bush administration came to town with the purpose of exerting better control over information as a way of restoring power to the executive branch.

The Bush administration came in with the agenda of recovering some of the executive privileges and exemptions to the access to public information from the more recent changes in public information laws.

('Barbershop' executive producer) John Ridley asked me if I wanted to see the new scene, and of course I said, 'yes,'

As I reviewed the number of documents about John Roberts record, it is imperative that there is intensive oversight during the hearings, ... The Supreme Court is a lifetime appointment. We cannot afford to lose ground on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the affirmative action executive order in the Nixon White House, and the rights to fairness in the criminal justice system.

That's how we're going to fix Medicare, is to get somebody who has executive experience in governing, particularly in health care, ... With me, you'll get results, because I'm a governor and I've done it.

That's hands-on management, executive management, whether it's a department of 100,000 at the Department of Transportation or whether it's a huge Corporation like the American Red Cross that I ran for eight years,

Alan will work hand in hand with the new chief executive and they, with assistance from the other directors, will drive the game on in Scotland.

Aidan's deep knowledge in helping to build global brands, along with his own experience as a founder and executive producer of a successful international TV event special made him a natural choice,

You've vested authority in your executive director. Two minutes ago when you adopted those bylaws, you empowered him.

You never really want to see a chief executive leave this early on, but Segal's main targets -- the IPO and staffing up -- are largely done. The company can now bring on someone more operationally focused.

This is an exciting day for ING,'' said Fred S. Hubbell, chairman of ING Americas and ING Asia/Pacific Executive Committees.

This is a new testing stage. The successor has to be tested out in an executive position.

This is the governor's prerogative since the office was created by executive order,

This is not a subject that we ought to be talking about daily in regards to a confirmation hearing. If anything, it ought to be talked about in executive session. But it's not, it's out, and so there you have it.

This is not a problem that the executive branch can fix on its own.

This is not about who can be the best legal mind. It's about who can be the best business manager for this county. The most important job of the Smith County judge is being its chief executive officer and chief budget officer. My 32 years of business experience will serve me well in that capacity.

This is not so. In any case, the issue is not the executive chairman. It is how to get on with the work of disarming Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction.

The White House is doing everything it can to determine what documents wouldn't fall under executive privilege or attorney-client privilege.

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This election process, which was agreed to by the full executive board and without any objections, will continue and will not be disrupted by such baseless actions.

This constitutes an excessive delegation of power by the executive branch.

This further empowers the executive branch to do whatever it wants outside of the law.

This case, here for the second time, raises a question 'of profound importance to the nation. Nothing the government has yet done purports to retract the assertion of executive power Padilla protests.

This administration, like that of President Nixon, has apparently secretly adopted a legal view of the executive branch's power that is unbounded.

They said, 'You guys have to form an executive committee and you have about 20 minutes to do that,' because they needed a slate of officers, ... It's always a challenge to start something from ground zero. It's a privilege and a challenge at the same time.

A lot of organizations that train their employees through our coursework really value the ability to integrate a Cornell executive education experience into their training initiative. They get a high level of service from us, just like they have come to expect from an Ivy League university. And just because there is a greater reach, doesn't mean your admission standards change. You're looking for a certain quality of student who is going to interact in your program.

Although the executive and legislative branches have significant differences of opinion regarding various policy aspects of the (law), this brief does not address who is 'right' as to those choices.

They are astute observers of the executive branch ... and they know that the president is weakened.

There's a lot of faith and confidence in this management team. This may be more change in executive suite than investors are happy to see.

The report issued by the committee will help us in making that determination. The Foundation Board, however, is exploring the alternative of hiring its own Executive Director.

There needs to be at some point some permanency to this thing. And I think that's what our concern was. We're not trying to tell Auburn who should be the chief executive officer. (We're) asking them to go ahead and make decisions.

There's 46 other people on the executive board and they'll have their say.

There might be an executive departure that we haven't heard of yet.

This is the last gasp. If they don't get their act together, I will call on the county executive to call them in default.

They report up to the attorney general, who - we all report up to the President of the United States. All of us work in the executive branch.

There's a tremendous depth of talent within Berkshire's executive ranks.

There's an executive order that requires a certain percentage of federal fleets to be flex-fuel vehicles.

At least the House has indicated an unwillingness to adopt policy through the budget. It's the governor's belief that the executive order he signed minutes after taking his oath will continue to be the policy of this administration.

At a time when the president is abusing his power at every turn, I cannot vote to confirm a judge who won't be an independent check on the executive branch.

As we strive to build Revolution into an iconic brand like Virgin, one that stands for the build-to-last values of a company like Berkshire Hathaway, we need a first-rate communications executive and are delighted to welcome Brad.

As we now understand the situation, New York is not able to provide such guarantees. In such an exceptional circumstance as this, a bid city has the right to address the issue in front of the executive board.

As we move toward opening the center in late 2008, we have a tremendous amount that has to be accomplished. It is essential that we expand and strengthen the executive team as we plan for construction.

As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

A Budweiser executive once grabbed me at a conference and told me how great our site was and how much good it was doing them. He didn't give me a check though.

A company has to have some type of event, whether it lays off people, whether they recall their IPO (initial public offering). Maybe they're getting sued or an executive leaves. The points are based on the odds,

It seems perfectly reasonable for the president to want members of the executive branch to be loyal to him and to follow his directions rather than those of the bureaucracies they lead. They will leave their positions when the president leaves. Making a lifetime appointment of a friend to the Supreme Court is a whole different matter.

It's a self-perpetuating system involving interests, members of Congress, people in the executive branch and patronage positions and so on.

It was a unanimous vote by the executive committee. It was 100 percent. It didn't take five seconds to vote.

It is unfortunate that this campaign continues with the same methods and the same concept: that the secretary-general's post is like that of a corporate chief executive officer (CEO), not like a government leader, responsible to a parliamentary body.

It really gives the appearance that the judges have to answer to the politicians, and our democracy is set up very clearly to ensure the judiciary is independent from the executive branch.

It's not just a matter of the cost of the airplane vs. the cost of an airline ticket, ... You have to factor in the amount of time an executive wastes waiting for connecting flights or being forced to stay overnight on the road instead of flying direct.

It's not hard to maintain it. It just simply has to be done. The problem is the work isn't the normal work of any of these agencies. So unless there is a meaningful commitment from the executive levels, it naturally falls through.

It's the top executive who wants to live the way he lives elsewhere--in a fine, fine building, in an extraordinary living space.

It sometimes seems like every major Republican financial executive in New York has already been offered his job.

Its not easy to move on from something that has been such a part of my life all these years, but it just feels like the right time for me, ... I will continue to work closely with Daylight on a consulting basis, but I am confident that I leave Daylights valued customers in great hands with Tim and the best executive team you could ask for.

It's the most expansive vision of the executive power of a president in our lifetime. To suggest that (Congress has) given him a blanket authority to do what he has done is a vast stretch.

It's more than executive privilege, ... It's really lawyer-client privilege.

It just appears now is the best time to do so, ... I need to be able to focus all my time and energy to being the executive of that organization and not be splintered in other directions.

It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.

It's always a difficult defense when a corporate executive gets a lot of money and there isn't a sufficiently clear paper trail showing the executive was entitled to that money.

It may have the effect of influencing the outcome of the investigation of the DOJ, which is part of the executive branch.

It's funny, because '1600 Penn' was the first time I really started to read the reviews, because I am an executive producer and I wanted to see what people were enjoying and not enjoying as a means to an end, right?

It's hard to reach 7 million people. People spend millions of dollars marketing chewing gum. This is about choosing the next chief executive of Virginia. This is important.

It's probably way too late now to book a flight on the Concorde, but people can still get the high-end treatment with executive jet leasing programs, ... A few of these companies are offering deals for about $5,000 that include a flight across the country, a night at the luxury hotel and formal dinner. If you've got the financial wherewithal to spend that kind of money, there are any number of ways to do it.