In early 2007, after Zander concluded that the message the company had been broadcasting had been poor, he decided to force out long-standing investor relations Vice President Ed Gams.

FORBES: Adviser Soapbox

Irina Bokova, the Executive Director of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, Madame Xu Lin, as well as the founder of the Nishan Forum and former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of National People's Congress, Professor Xu Jialu, will speak at the opening session of the Forum.

UNESCO: Programme meetings | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

She has inevitably encountered resistance, given the number of fingers in the foreign-policy pie including those of a vice-president, Joe Biden, with a long-standing interest in foreign affairs.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

He entered the Standing Committee of the Politburo in 2007 and in 2008 became the country's vice president.

CNN: China's new leaders

She is one of four of President Suharto's children standing in the election, and is tipped for high political office, perhaps as vice-president, a post to be filled next year.

ECONOMIST: Indonesia��s ritual election

The vice-president's departure has done nothing to improve his already poor standing with members of the president's Radical Party, while his supporters, who gathered outside his flat in the Buenos Aires suburb of Palermo as the news of his resignation broke, expressed open hostility towards Mr de la Rua.

ECONOMIST: Argentina

And I asked early on in the campaign, before I was Vice President -- I asked my -- the six Americans who I was standing with who they enjoyed standing most together with.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

"ICANN is largely dominated by a handful of inside players who have long-standing involvement in the Internet's infrastructure, " says Don Tel-age, a senior vice president of Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), the Herndon, Va.

CNN: Domain group lacking strong U.S. presence

This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government consultants.

NEWYORKER: Shifting Targets