They were dead wrong: instead, executives turned their attention to the short-term goal of boosting stock value over the long-term prospects of the company and executive pay shot into the stratosphere.
Still, Bush retains the belief that as the chief elected executive, the shots are his to call.
And come on: quoting a money-minded and rude industry executive taking shots at the lowly screenwriter is so passé.
Ms. Brigliadoro's group includes a store manager, a psychologist, a social worker, an event planner, a hot shot executive, all of them working full or part time, or planning to after a few years at home with children.
Billionaires need not be dudes all the time; bestselling author Jennifer Probst features a big shot executive heroine in her novel The Marriage Merger.
WGN executives had a shot at going after a well-known personality like Jonathon Brandmeier, the former WLUP-FM 97.9 personality, but passed.
Averting a potentially divisive debate in the Legislature, Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, signed an executive order mandating shots of the Merck vaccine Gardasil as protection against the human papillomavirus, or HPV, starting in September 2008.
The initial proposal for ministers to trigger secrecy by diktat fell away, but the outrageous idea of the executive calling the shots in court without reference to a judge was surely only ever included to create an obvious concession.
And if I am, why on earth aren't I a big-shot executive doing something smart rather than sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor, merely writing about being smart?
