To be clear, the direct reason for the magazine's demise lay in executive decisions at Artnet AG, which, though related, are only indirectly tied to the climate for criticism.
During Congressional testimony, officials from Toyota's American operations said the responsibility for recalls lay with executives in Japan.
The Treasury select committee said the ultimate responsibility for the "omission and failures" that led to an investigation into one former HBOS executive lay with the then FSA chief executive, Sir Hector Sants.
In what may be the most delicious of ironies, it is George W Bush himself who provides the only precedent for determining where the power lay for invoking Executive Privilege for acts committed in another President's Administration.
On talk shows and the Internet, Piper's problems have been linked to recent admissions by the popular historian Stephen Ambrose that he failed to properly attribute passages; the resignation of George O'Leary, Notre Dame's football coach, after revelations that he falsified his résumé; even alleged lying by executives at Enron.
Its governing body, the chapter, is made up of five clerical canons (the dean, the precentor, the canon chancellor, the canon treasurer, and the archdeacon of Wells) and four lay members: the administrator (chief executive), Keeper of the Fabric, Overseer of the Estate and the chairman of the cathedral shop and catering boards.
Much of the blame, in her view, lay with movie executives who oriented their ambitions around the box office.
What gave Dimon the stature to be the standard-bearer against Dodd-Frank — even as other major bank executives lay low — was that JPMorgan had shrewdly avoided the problems that had crushed most other large financial institutions during the crisis.
The affiliate, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, the nation's largest contractor, said it would lay off 63 executives, close two local and four overseas offices, sell parts of its business and spin off 10 other units.
Swept up in what appears to be the latest managerial fad, the author says, many chief executives lay off thousands of workers, hoping that such moves will delight securities analysts and investors and nudge their stocks up 5percentt.
Media analysts and current and former Hearst executives lay some blame on moves by the company and the previous owners, the de Young family — particularly a damaging 35-year partnership with a smaller paper, The Examiner, whose effects are still felt years after it was dissolved.
