Barry Quirk, the council's interim chief executive, spoke of "generating" more housing for victims, AKA buying some.
Jordan Levin, chief executive of Generate, a digital production and distribution company, was more blunt.
As recently as May, chief executive Ian Livingston set a target of generating free cash flow of £2bn in the financial year 2012/13.
But a presentation by H. Lee Scott Jr., chief executive of Wal-Mart Sthees Inc., generated the most talk at the conference.
Mr. Reed's planned retirement, which will leave Sanford I. Weill, 66, as sole chief executive of Citigroup, generated wide-ranging speculation about who would emerge as Mr. Weill's eventual successor.
All of these uses are expected by most television industry executives to generate new sources of revenue.
In a live demonstration, it helped researchers role-playing as executives to generate a short list of companies to acquire.
If that failed, he could make aggressive use of his executive powers — generating cycles of alienation that would, over time, undermine the very ideal of democracy.
In the relatively short time that followed, the association lost two executive directors and one interim executive director, generating a number of in-house investigations and a remarkable level of internal rancor.
"People are outraged at the personal benefits that executives derive by generating false reports of positive financial gains," said Krishna G. Palepu, a professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School.
