They include the Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, the former prime minister, Simon Peres, and a number of senior business-people.

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But there's a second list I'd like to compile after a few days talking to senior leaders and business people here in the mountains.

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These senior people have now been named by the BBC's business editor Robert Peston: Paul Tucker at the Bank of England, and Bob Diamond at Barclays.

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But there's been little use of the regulator's power to withhold "fit and proper person" approval for those in senior financial positions, nor the business department's power to ban people as company directors.

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The new OnLive is looking to hire great people for the business development team, as well as a senior marketing leader.

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That is uniquely true of the U.S. Department of Defense, where it is typical to find some of the most senior positions in the weapons acquisition system populated by people who have little understanding of new technologies or business processes.

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Deutsche Bank (nyse: DB - news - people ) has scooped up eight people from Morgan Stanley's (nyse: MWD - news - people ) institutional equities business, one of the units embroiled at the center of a senior management upheaval.

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At an event here, Jeff Clarke, senior vice president and general manager of the Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) business product group, said the new models represent a million man-hours of research, more than 3, 200 prototype test units and feedback from more than 4, 000 customers.

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