Jeremy Clarkson and Top Gear programme chiefs could reportedly face a prison sentence of up to three years if found guilty of "falsification", after a court in Argentina ordered that an investigation into the claims should be reactivated.
Since Mr. Bloomberg appointed Ms. Black two weeks ago, his political machine has been in high gear, enlisting powerful chief executives, academics and former mayors to urge Dr. Steiner to grant the waiver.
"Robert was scarred by L.A. Gear," recalls Michael Rubin, chief of Global Sports, a Web sporting goods retailer.
"The eurozone's recovery has moved up a gear," said Chris Williamson, chief economist of Markit.
"It's not uncommon to find them slumped over at a red light, car in gear," Huntington Police Chief Joe Ciccarelli said.
The ECB's actions "are significant but far from historic, and by themselves will not kick the Eurozone economy into higher gear," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.
The class-action suit stemmed from a far-ranging federal investigation of the two auction giants that moved into high gear when a former chief executive of Christie's delivered papers that documented years of collusion between two companies.
At Delco Machine & Gear in Long Beach, Calif., Chief Executive Philip Jakobi teaches employees reading and math as well as machining.
If he was wrong, he was wrong big," says Mark Goldston, who succeeded Robert as president of L.A. Gear; he now is chief of NetZero.
Visitors to the virtual Laguna Beach "can quench their thirst with a can of Pepsi, read a Pepsi-branded mandzine and purchase Pepsi-styled gear," Viacom President and Chief Executive Philippe Dauman Philippe Dauman said.
