Ever since the beginning of May, when Italy was officially designated a founder-member of Europe's single currency, those who more often carp about the country's inability to get its act together have been lauding its new maturity.
Its only non-engineer team member, co-founder and Chief Executive Aydin Ghajar, says he was lucky: Salesforce hired him as a director of product management.
The shortlist also includes Peter Porter and Ruth Padel and the prize is named after Eliot - a founder member in 1953 of the Poetry Book Society.
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We spoke with an expert on the matter, Martin Pichinson, co-founder and managing member of Sherwood Partners (which does two or three ABCs in a given week), to help educate us on this little-known tool used by companies irrevocably in the red.
Sergey Brin, Google's co-founder and a current high-ranking executive and board member, sidestepped questions about the investigation at a conference Wednesday and alluded to the fact that Larry Page is now running the company.
Warren, founder of the 15, 000-member Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, Calif.
The 80-year-old is the founder member of the Postcard Club of Great Britain, amassing a collection of 95, 000 over 50 years before she sold most of it off a few years ago.
Paul Rieckhoff, founder of the 200, 000-member Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, based in New York City, said New York's gun law has been a topic among veterans in New York and across the country.
Mr Price, from Stockport and a founder member of the British Disabled Water-Ski Association, says Windermere is regularly used by the British disabled team for training purposes.
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Mr Khalilzad was a founder member of the now ailing neo-con Project for the New American Century, and signed its 1998 letter that called on President Bill Clinton to topple Saddam Hussein.
There's no doubt - despite questions about his conviction for the murder of Catholic barman Peter Ward - that Gusty Spence was a founder member of the loyalist UVF back in the 1960s.
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Neelam Aggarwal-Singh, 53, is a founder member of the Indian Hindu Welfare Organisation (IHWO), set up in 1996.
John Walton , the second son of Wal-Mart Stores (nyse: WMT - news - people ) founder Sam Walton and a member of the company's board, died Monday in a plane crash in Wyoming.
Albert Ueltschi, founder of pilot-training company FlightSafety International and a longtime member of the Forbes 400, has passed away.
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The guest list included Prince Andrew, the Queen's second son, as well as Gazprom founder and former prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and TNK-BP board member Viktor Vekselberg.
Watkins then played in the band his father conducted - the Spring Gardens Brass Band in Reading - of which his grandfather was also conductor and a founder member.
She was a founder of the Masr El-Om (Mother Egypt) Party and was a member of its political committee (2004-2006).
Italy, a founder member of the European Union, has returned to the centre of policy-making after the marginalisation and mockery of the Berlusconi years.
But Mr Kennedy is a former member of the Social Democratic Party and star-struck fan of its founder, Mr Blair's friend Lord Jenkins.
Members and privacy groups have criticized the company and its 23-year-old founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, for implementing programs that make personal member data accessible to advertisers.
An era came to an end in mid-August, when Robert L. Hulseman, the 74-year-old chief executive and son of the founder, turned the company over to a nonfamily member.
Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Recordings and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, is arguably the most political member of the hip-hop community.
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