After he quit as chief executive of a local restaurant chain, his former employer denied him a permit to leave Qatar.
"We have to defend ourselves," said Hugo Guerrero, owner of Hugo's Tours travel agency and chief executive of a local merchants association.
Mr. Zierleyn, 42, recently encountered the chief executive of a local bakery goods company, Bakels Senior, which was holding daylong training sessions for customers in the theater, with lunch in the restaurant and a drink in the cafe.
— MICHAEL D. SHEAR ALTON, Iowa — Tom Kiernan, the president and chief executive of a local bank, who ran the caucus meeting in this small town in northwest Iowa — a corner of the state that strongly backed Mike Huckabee four years ago — said he was surprised that the argument made by Mitt Romney supporters didn't win out.
"What's happened in downtown over the past seven years is that the office space was here, the housing came, and retail is arriving last to the scene," said Mike Kennedy, president and chief executive of a local real estate firm, Commercial Texas.
When I introduce myself as the chief executive of a local charity, the responses I receive range from "Wow, you're doing something great in your community" to "Ah, second-rate do-gooder who doesn't understand how to run a real business".
The executive of a local branch of an Energy Company believes that there will be a second round of voting.
The executive of a local community improvement organization said the garden has also contributed to the city's economy.
Several years back, I came across the executive of a local bank who had owned a large chunk of stock in his own company.
That said, a jury has never found the magazine guilty of defamation – though there have been repercussions, like a front page apology and the costs of a legal battle waged against them by the chief executive of a local housing association for publishing what The Digger called "serious, yet unfounded" allegations about him.
