On the other side of the deal is Kenneth D. Lewis, a pragmatic, no-nonsense banker who, as Bank of America's chief executive, monitored the Merrill takeover from a remote base in his Charlotte, N.C., headquarters and who, according to people at his bank, was perhaps blinded to Merrill's risks by his own ambitions and penchant for empire building.
IN the tense days following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission conducted twice daily conference calls with stock exchange executives, monitoring their efforts to reopen the nation's securities markets.
But for the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which presents the awards, and for many music and technology executives monitoring the show, some of the more important issues of the night will have to do with Justin Bieber's retweet count and how many fans share their musical memories on a Grammy-themed interactive mapping program.
At the San Antonio headquarters of top U.S. refiner Valero Energy, the emergency command center was alert on Saturday morning, with two dozen executives monitoring the landfall of Hurricane Rita on the Louisiana coast.
Two executives monitored Mets games to be sure he did not turn into Mr. Gray.
"But what does luxury mean in 2015?" At first, the company's executives monitored Rousteing's feed closely.
Executives monitored the supply chain's status on "white space" charts, in which green bars represented various vehicle platforms and white gaps showed the length of time before all the parts would be available to build those vehicles.
Among other powers, the envoys are responsible for putting into effect all federal orders and presidential dictates, coordinating executive agencies, monitoring law enforcement, supervising all federal hiring and "giving rewards and delivering thanks from the president".
Three members of the FSA executive started monitoring his actions to ensure he was continuing to "work in the public interest and was not engaged in areas of business where that might be a potential for a perceived conflict of interest regarding a future employer".
Filmmakers can often be frustrated by the creative constraints imposed by the studio system, but when working on a much lower budget level, there's simply not enough at stake to warrant any executive excessively monitoring the filmmaker's choices.
