(He was laid off as part of post-9/11 tech-industry budget cuts, not because of anything either of them wrote).
Regulatory pay-go puts a cap on protections, but it imposes no parallel cap on regulated industries' "budget" for causing harm.
The crisis hit the entire industry, from "budget" tour operators to hotels and airlines.
The problem is the fickle nature of the tourist industry, where budget airlines have only partly replaced the declining numbers of package holidaymakers.
Job: director, BBC audio and music Age: 44 Industry: broadcasting Budget: £324m Staff: 1,404 Salary: £422,000 (total remuneration) 2010 ranking: 77 Tim Davie's radio stations don't just play records – they break them.
But given that it had only two weeks to write rules and was under heavy pressure from the industry, the budget office appears to have left many hard decisions up to the board.
Job: controller, BBC2 Age: 52 Industry: broadcasting Budget: £450.6m (total content spend BBC2) Salary: £232,800 (total remuneration) New entry Janice Hadlow is on a mission to dumb up BBC2.
Job: controller, BBC2 Age: 52 Industry: broadcasting Budget: £421m (total content spend BBC2) Salary: £232,800 (total remuneration) 2010 ranking : 60 With economies needed at the BBC, it's make or break time for Janice Hadlow.
Age: 59 Industry: broadcasting Budget: £240m Staff: 1,700 Salary: £322,000 (including £15,000 bonus and £12,000 benefits/expenses) 2005 ranking: 43 BBC Radio has undergone a quiet revolution under Abramsky that will change the way we listen to the medium and has put its commercial rivals to the sword.
Job: director, BBC audio and music Age: 43 Industry: broadcasting Budget: £603.8m (BBC's total spend on radio) Staff: 1,453 Salary: £452,000 (total remuneration) 2009 ranking: 70 As the BBC's director of audio and music, Tim Davie is responsible for what nearly 38 million people listen to on the radio each week.
