And at Lord & Taylor in Midtown, so many sales clerks were absent that executives were pressed into service.
The executives were pressed over whether the bank's leverage level and lack of foresight on a looming collapse of the United States mortgage market made it the first major victim of the financial crisis.
DealBook » Viacom Promotes Its Head of M.&.A. to Chief Financial Officer | WALL STREET JOURNAL Moynihan's Spotty Memory | Bank of America's chief executive, Brian T. Moynihan, was pressed by a lawyer in a deposition connected to the bank's legal battle with MBIA.
Admittedly, the stables that were cleansed of Big Brother subsequently held the stench of the snobbish gawk-show Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and the crassly named (though editorially defensible) documentary about disabled single people The Undateables; two shows on which the new C4 chief executive, Jay Hunt, was pressed at the Edinburgh International Television Festival this year.
She also canceled her regular CBS "Early Show" appearance after executives said she would be pressed on her sale of ImClone shares, which Mr. Bacanovic's office handled.
Chief Bober's force had already been working 12-hour shifts since the Department of Homeland Security raised the alert level for transit systems after the first bombings in the London subway on July 7. Now, his boss, George Warrington, the executive director of New Jersey Transit, is pressed to find more money to spend on policing the rails and buses.
Michele Colombo, a well-tailored former advertising executive from Milan, is adamant that panini not be pressed.
The point is that financial institutions like J.P. Morgan and Citigroup are so large that even the most relentlessly focused chief executive is hard pressed to prevent the occasional blow-up.
Cadillac executives are constantly pressed to put the LaSalle name back into service.
On a public conference call with Wall Street analysts on Wednesday, Tesla executives were not pressed for more details about their decision to stop providing the reservation numbers.
