Similarly, when the bureaucracy finally gets around to using its existing statutory authority to regulate industrial farmers who foul rivers with animal waste, it will be because some chief executive has ordered it to.
With this background of data meltdown in the public sector, David Nicholson, the NHS chief executive, has ordered all trusts to review their information security policies - keeping unencrypted information out of memory sticks, avoiding transferring huge amounts of patient records in bulk, and so on.
For lunch, the Quoddy C.E.O., John Andreliunas, a trim, sardonic former Nike executive, had ordered up a delivery of hot dogs known in these parts as "snappers"; in keeping with local custom, they were the color of grenadine.
Mr. Putin said at the time he was prosecuting a tax evader, and has recently been stepping up the criticism, comparing Mr. Khodorkovsky to Al Capone and telling a national television call-in show that the oil executive had ordered contract murders.
Javid Faisal, a spokesman for Abdullah, said in a statement that the chief executive had ordered government entities to "spend their human and financial resources to rescue" those buried beneath the snow.
On March 12, about 28 hours after the tsunami struck, Tepco executives had ordered workers to start injecting seawater into Reactor No. 1.
"Skins" gained attention earlier in the week when The New York Times reported that MTV executives had ordered edits to coming episodes of the show for fear of running afoul of child pornography statutes.
The county executive, William Schuber, is enthusiastic and has ordered a feasibility study.
It therefore came as a rude surprise when, late last year, the National Bank of Slovakia announced that the European Commission, the union's executive arm, had ordered it to remove halos and crosses from special commemorative euro coins due to be minted this summer.
Mr. Dimon, the executives explained, had ordered the information halted because of broad security concerns.
After pleading guilty to making a false statement to the federal government, a former Bristol-Myers executive has been ordered to write a book detailing his experiences in the case.
