In his moment of hubris, the unelected Mr Carmona, a manager of a petrochemical firm, decreed the dissolution of the National Assembly, elected less than two years ago (and in which Mr Chavez now enjoys only a narrow majority), and the Supreme Court.
The firm has decreed that holiday parties should "where practicable be held in AIG facilities" rather than in a restaurant or a bar.
Employees of a certain downtown law firm whose senior partners decreed the abandonment of the old-fashioned salutation on incoming and office-to-office calls now use the new form when they meet each other in the halls.
As part of her efforts to reboot the ailing internet firm, Ms Mayer has decreed that from June all the company's staff will be expected to come into its offices to do their jobs.The news of Ms Mayer's ban on telecommuting surfaced in the form of a memo to employees sent by Yahoo's head of human resources.
According to the decree, Russian firms are now authorized to export hardware and to provide financial and technical advice to help Iran with three specific tasks.
The firms signed consent decrees to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission that they had made unsubstantiated claims and misled potential clients, the F.T.C. said.
Soon, perhaps, the product will once again matter to the exclusion of everything else; owning the best drug patents, film rights or software designs may once more be all that counts.In any event, as another management fashion decrees, firms do well to concentrate on "core competences".
The firm entered into a consent decree with the commission and agreed to hire more women as brokers -- and to stop giving applicants that test.
A statement issued by the firm said that the consent decree was not an admission of wrongdoing, and said that it had settled "to put the cost, time and distraction of this litigation behind us".
The debate about the role of private security firms began publicly in August when President Hamid Karzai issued a decree that banned the firms, with limited exceptions, and said that the Afghan police would take over the job.
Mr Wallace, who previously ran the firm's British cable arm, decreed that from now on Cable & Wireless would concentrate solely on the data requirements of global business customers.
