According to Clarke Murphy of Russell Reynolds, a recruitment firm, American multinationals now have a "ferocious interest in attracting non-Americans to the board", but as yet even Europeans are a rarity, let alone directors from emerging markets.
"This technology was pulled into reality thanks to the ferocious interest of fans all over the world... but at this price point many won't be able to bring it into their homes, and others will have second thoughts".
Even after recent signs of recovery, and a reversal of last October's ferocious interest-rate rise, the finance ministry expects only 2% growth this year, and most private forecasters less than that.
As was the case then, he said, the regulators are sharply underfinanced, face ferocious corporate lobbying interests with friends in Congress who want to weaken the rules, and are often unable to anticipate or prevent major infractions that can wind up costing investors huge sums of money.
Panelist Harold Varmus, head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, suggested that science could try for some of that money by emphasizing its role as an employer and as a consumer of American-made equipment--an effort that will plunge it into ferocious competition with countless other interest groups, many of them better organized for combat than the research community.
Humble, respectful, a little mystical, he and his interests would appeal to ferocious record snobs but also to middle-aged urbanites who like their music calming and uplifting and conscious, in the hip-hop sense of the word.
"The conjunction of politics and substance -- and the interest groups -- are as ferocious as you can imagine.
Mr. Schulte, a longtime teaching artist at the institute, is a player of ferocious focus and clarity, as well as of technical interest: He holds the bow daringly far out on the wood, giving himself less room to maneuver but a compensating pressure and intensity.
His portrayal is at once ferocious and empathetic, adding a complexity to America's interests in the shipping lanes around the dangerous Horn of Africa, where economic hardship and extremism collide.
It would allow him to burnish his greatest selling point his reputation as a ferocious reformer who is willing to take on any and every vested interest.
A ferocious interrogator of politicians and deposer of director generals, Humphrys has little interest in modern music - "I like the classics, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach" - but he has seen headliners the Rolling Stones once before, at Madison Square Garden in 1972, when he was the BBC's first full-time television correspondent in North America.
