In the hours that followed, Mr. Moynihan, Bruce Thompson, the bank's chief financial officer, and Charles Holliday, the chairman, met and briefed directors on Mr. Buffett's proposal.
In May 2002, Robert Gordon, an executive in the bank's mutual fund division, briefed directors of the Nations Funds on a proposal to charge a 2percentt fee to investors who held the company's international funds for less than 90 days, according to a person briefed on the investigation.
He briefed the directors on the findings in the Webb report and planned to send copies of it to the directors this week.
I thought to have David Yelland … being trooped thorugh the Newsroom at the BBC to brief the director general, that seemed to me to be a seriously lousy story.
Patten told the inquiry that he "thought to have Yelland trooped through the newsroom at the BBC to brief the director general, that seemed to me, to be a seriously lousy story".
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He has regularly briefed the directors about the bank's challenges, including a "Subprime 101" tutorial late last month that outlined the possible pitfalls of Citigroup's exposure to the least creditworthy segment of the mortgage market.
Danger signs about the story were already flickering, but it seems they were not noticed by those who should have briefed BBC director general George Entwistle.
In a pre-E3 briefing, creative director Eric Couzian emphasised the sense of player freedom and environmental realism, claiming that every non-player character in the landscape will have their own motivations and agendas.
At the same briefing, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan raised her fist and called for "Action, action, action!" The DRC outbreak, first reported to WHO on 26 August, has so far sickened 53 people and killed 31, according to WHO.
