Now some investors, who tended to give executives free rein when stock prices were rising, are trying to force changes.
But many banking executives, free to discuss the results publicly for the first time, sought to put a positive spin on the tests.
All this gave Fannie's executives free rein to underwrite far more loans, further enriching themselves and their shareholders, but at increasing risk to taxpayers as lending standards declined.
Industry executives, free-speech advocates and many computer users have reacted angrily to the new mandate, which gives manufacturers until July 1 to preinstall the software on millions of new machines.
"You want to know who uses it?" said Jeff Pulver, the founder and chief executive of Free World Dialup.
In Bavasi's first 25 years as an executive — before free agency arrived — club owners held the upper hand.
Craig Aaron, president and chief executive of Free Press, an advocacy group that supports diverse media ownership, agreed that there was "very little wiggle room" in the current rules.
Her route of departure was harshly criticized by Craig Aaron, the president and chief executive of Free Press, a media interest group that had opposed the Comcast-NBC merger.
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Mr. Sokol told the Omaha World-Herald that ending his 17-year run as MidAmerican chief executive will free him to work on acquisitions.
In 2007, Lord Justice Sedley [4] criticized the establishment of a Serious Organized Crime Agency by claiming that "the state has set out to create an Alsatia — a region of executive action free of judicial oversight".
