• Nobody seriously thought to second-guess the board's judgment.

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  • Might anybody else on the board second-guess them?

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  • Many countries developed their high-tech industries long before they had a second board.

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  • During a conference call touting the automaker's solid second-quarter earnings, GM announced that Akerson, a board member since 2009, will become CEO.

    FORBES

  • In both the disaggregated and legacy weekly commitment of traders reports issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the managed-money and speculative non-commercial accounts decreased their net-long positions across the board, for the second week in a row in some cases.

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  • He bought an electric saw and some lumber to patch the second-floor gallery, but every time he was halfway through a board a fuse would blow in the spider-haunted circuit box in the kitchen.

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  • But having a successful predecessor sitting on the board (and, as is often the case with second-act chief executives, a big shareholder to boot) cannot have made life easy for David Pottruck, who had taken over from Mr Schwab in 2003.

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  • Second, the McCain legislation calls for the creation of an industry-government advisory board tasked to consider and jointly develop recommendations concerning future standards for encryption exports.

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  • Outspoken analyst and fund manager Tom Brown, of New York-based Second Curve Capital, wrote in a letter to Citigroup's board last week that "the growth strategy lately being articulated by management will end in costly failure, " and he repeated his call for a break-up of the company.

    FORBES: Weill Springs To Citi's Defense

  • It has fallen behind in adapting electronic technologies that would help it compete for volume with other exchanges, dropping from second to third-largest among the nation's options exchanges, behind the Chicago Board Options Exchange and the International Securities Exchange.

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  • He soon lost his board seat as well after taking a swing at Meitec's new second-in- command.

    FORBES: Greasing the wheels

  • Members of the school board of Hillsborough County (which includes part of Tampa, Florida's second-largest city) have offered to take a pay cut if their schools fail.

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  • The second asset is that the unions operate on every level of politics, right down to local school-board races.

    ECONOMIST: Behind-the-scenes politics

  • The source said the tree -- located at the site of the second blast -- was removed along with the surrounding grate, where the explosive device's circuit board was found.

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  • The government narrowly avoided a second defeat when it saw off a move that would have forced commissioners to appoint a non-executive board of between four and seven members to provide advice to PCCs on issues such as finance, staff and equality.

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  • Second that it would be pretty odd if Lloyds' board doesn't tomorrow confirm that the Co-op is its preferred bidder.

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  • Second, it recommends that the power of the executive board be increased relative to that of national central-bank governors, who are more likely to be influenced by national interests.

    ECONOMIST: European Central Bank

  • The merger between Glencore and Xstrata was finalised on 2 May after much delay, mainly due to opposition by Qatar Holdings, Xstrata's second largest shareholder, against the multi-million pound "golden handcuffs" plan to retain Xstrata's board members.

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  • Currently, he sits on the advisory board for Tout, a social-media startup that lets users make and share 15-second videos.

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  • The government narrowly avoided a second defeat last Wednesday when it saw off a move that would have forced commissioners to appoint a non-executive board of between four and seven members to provide advice to PCCs on issues such as finance, staff and equality.

    BBC: Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill

  • Queens resident Danielle Forgione is scrambling to sell her second-floor apartment after a neighbor complained about 1-year-old Petey the pig to the co-op board.

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