The new head of the Royal/Dutch Shell Group and its current chief financial officer, as well as the chairman ousted last week, were advised of huge shortfalls in proven oil and natural gas reserves in 2002, two years before they were publicly disclosed, according to company memorandums and notes of executive discussions.
The chief executives' discussion, in contrast, was considerably more pragmatic.
But there was some dissent within Bank of America, according to a person with knowledge of executives' discussions.
Amadeu Altafaj-Tardio, a spokesman for the European Commission, the European Union executive, said discussions with Greece's private creditors were "ongoing".
It was an executive-session discussion on a script in which Superman proves vulnerable to the atomic bomb.
But Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney refused, saying that the confidentiality of executive branch discussions was worth fighting for.
Sanford I. Weill, chairman of Carnegie Hall, said on Tuesday that there were "a lot of executive committee discussions about the process," adding that progress was slowed by summer schedules.
Mr. Hewlett -- a Hewlett-Packard board member, son of the co-founder William Hewlett, and the leading opponent of the deal -- accused the company of trying to "hide the ball" by not disclosing the executive compensation discussions.
Some unions will now take these proposals to their executives for discussion, but the tone from various unions in response to the final proposals has been starkly different.
A proposed agenda for a meeting this week between senior UAE officials and Foundation executives included discussion of possible US and UAE "policies to positively impact Iranian internal situation".
