Mr Eisner even sat in on part of Disney's interview with one external candidate for the job, Meg Whitman, the chief executive of eBay.
The reasons for the failure are numerous, but the new CEO Meg Whitman is smart enough to realize it can't simply abandon the market entirely.
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She also worked with Kate Winslet on the 1999 film Holy Smoke and Meg Ryan in the 2003 erotic thriller In the Cut.
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On the post earnings conference call, CEO Meg Whitman said the company needs to deliver reliable, consistent results.
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Wu says that the Street is expecting new CEO Meg Whitman will reduce the bar on earnings expectations.
Among the books vying in the section are Meg Rosoff for How I Live Now and Annie Cassidy for Looking for JJ.
Will the new CEO Meg Whitman reverse these strategic mistakes?
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The director, Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg, pretends to confront the chaos of contemporary urban life: free-floating anger and violence, racial abrasions, the fragility of family bonds.
"Compliance has not been enforced so I'm not surprised people don't understand the risks, " said Meg Watson, study author and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
The star of the show is young Rachel her pigtailed stage presence has earned her comparisons to fellow drummer Meg White of the White Stripes.
Mr Collier said he had run to help Meg when the wall collapsed.
Mother Meg, the matron saint of eBay, is now settling in as den mother of the Hewlett-Packard boy and girl scouts.
When asked how Gunn made up the list, spokeswoman Meg Annison said he had looked at high-profile arms makers who had threatened by gun control.
Each time a PlayStation 2 or Nintendo GameCube makes its way atop another television, or another family subscribes to an online game service, what passes for entertainment today--our movies and our stars, the Steven Spielbergs and Meg Ryans--fades just a bit, and we edge just a bit forward from our position as couch potatoes into couch possibilities.
Where other celebrities (Madonna, the Jolie-Pitt clan, Meg Ryan) are fast to announce their intent to adopt and introduce their new children to the world in a public relations blitz, Bullock and James kept mum.
Perhaps the best glimmer of hope for the former Palm system was Meg's focus on developing markets.
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Shadow energy secretary Meg Hillier welcomed the plans but warned they must provide "fairness and affordability for consumers".
Its vital importance was best expressed by Meg Whitman, the CEO of HP.
The government's plans came under a barrage of criticism from the Labour benches, with Meg Hillier branding cuts to child benefit as "bonkers".
Her big-screen films included a pair directed by Nora Ephron: the 1998 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan romance "You've Got Mail" and 1996's "Michael" starring John Travolta.
Hewlett-Packard shares are trading sharply lower Thursday as the Street absorbs some of the cautious commentary provided after the close yesterday by CEO Meg Whitman.
"HP is still in the early stages of a multi-year turnaround, and we're making decent progress despite the headwinds, " said Meg Whitman, HP president and chief executive officer.
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Whether or not hiring former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is the best course for Hewlett Packard in the long-run is best left to analysts who follow the company for a living.
Her appointment follows a series of high-profile CEO changes in the tech sector, with Meg Whitman recently named to succeed Leo Apotheker as CEO at Hewlett-Packard, and Tim Cook having succeeded Steve Jobs at Apple.
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In June Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, the ex-CEOs of Hewett-Packard and eBay , won their respective California primaries for senator and governor, while BP 's Tony Hayward, a current CEO, battled environmental and public relations disasters both in the oil-slicked Gulf of Mexico and while watching a regatta off the coast of England.
The Times, which backed him over the moderate and fiscally logical Republican Meg Whitman, however, is suddenly skeptical.
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