Ran for president in 1980, decided it was not - it didn't work, and then became a lifer.
She considered herself a lifer, believing she would be with Bear Stearns forever (of course, that was before it imploded).
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If you think being a lifer at a fertilizer company based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, sounds dull, you might want to think again.
But he is also a BOE lifer who has been a principal architect of the new regulatory agenda.
Richard Clark, a Merck lifer who had been in charge of Merck's manufacturing and had not been seen a candidate for the top job.
It is not unusual to find a Tata lifer whose spouse works for the firm and whose father also did.
New Chief Executive Steven McCormick , 50, a Conservancy lifer who was the head of the California chapter, aims to continue the tradition.
Homespun, plainspoken and a Microsoft lifer--on Oct. 9 he put in his 8, 000th day at the company he joined in 1981--Raikes is the stable counterbalance to the intense duo.
So when Philip Rosedale, the company's chief executive, announced in mid-March that he'd also be stepping down, a Second Lifer could be forgiven for thinking it was time to pack up and move on.
Clark, a Merck lifer who previously headed the company's manufacturing division, has focused initially on improving the efficiency of the company's production plants. (Under his plan, many of the job cuts will come from manufacturing, and five of Merck's 31 plants will be closed.) The goal, outlined on today's call, is to increase manufacturing efficiency, much as automakers like General Motors or computer makers like Dell have in the past.
So, I mean, this is going to have a big impact and soon if a pro-lifer, if that's ... what Judge Alito turns out to be, if he's appointed, could have a big impact very fast.
The entertaining, portly coaching lifer made a career out of delivering basketball wisdom or a restaurant review with equal aplomb.
What Mrs Palin does do, as a committed pro-lifer, is to ensure that the evangelical wing of the Republican party will turn out in their multitudes.
In September of that year, convinced that the Times had become lethargic, Sulzberger chose Howell Raines, a distinctly hot personality who had been running the editorial pages, to succeed Joseph Lelyveld, a preternaturally cool Times lifer, as executive editor.
Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
His surprise successor, a little-known Merck lifer named Richard Clark, was given carte blanche to turn the company around.
The milestone marks a coming-out party of sorts for the assiduously low-profile Hurd, a largely unsung NCR Corp. lifer who joined Hewlett-Packard 23 months ago, after the sudden ouster of star chief executive Carleton S. Fiorina.
"A younger clientele drives in an older clientele, " said Richie Notar, a Nobu co-owner and famed night-lifer from Manhattan's Studio 54 days.
He is only a bit more charitable in his view of Martin Sullivan, the AIG lifer who succeeded him.
Now Allen Andreas, 62 and an ADM lifer since age 30, must hand the top job to a successor.
The milestone marks a coming-out party of sorts for the assiduously low-profile Hurd, a largely unsung NCR (nyse: NCR - news - people ) Corp. lifer who joined Hewlett-Packard 23 months ago, after the sudden ouster of star chief executive Carleton S. Fiorina.
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