They went, instead, to the city's major hospital, where a friendly consultant would oversee future care.
At many U.S. companies, he says, the combined boss often recruits board members and then "directors feel obligated to the CEO/chairman, make the friendliest member chairman of the compensation committee and then hire a friendly consultant to do an analysis that favors high management pay".
The company has brought in eco-friendly consultants who have helped find innovative ways to reduce waste almost everywhere, from the use of chemicals to something as simple as installing electrical generators in the trucking fleet, so that refrigerated trucks don't have to idle overnight.
Overall, they were satisfied with the referral (83%), felt that the consultant was well informed by the GP (81%), that the treatment in the consultants' practice was friendly (79%), and that the GP had received adequate information from the consultant (75%).
He described the company's consultants as "people-friendly people".
Michael R. Edelman, a Republican political consultant, notes that Mr. Spano is friendly with the Clintons and envisions a prospective opponent using that association against him, because of the pardons controversy.
Michael Mini, the chamber's government relations director, said the group wanted to expand its efforts to help business-friendly candidates and was considering hiring the Freeman consultants to help.
CLEVELAND — David Loomis, a marketing consultant and professor, is soft-spoken and friendly.
(The objective, one Republican consultant notes, is to put just enough friendly voters in a district to win the seat without wasting any).
