For all that, however, there was a detectable confidence as Terry sat alongside the interim manager, Roberto Di Matteo – for large parts, in truth, little more than a spare part at his own press conference – and did his level best to convince us that, despite everything that has happened, this was a team with authentic reasons to believe "it could be one of our greatest ever seasons".
"If Bernie [Ebbers] sticks to $7 billion in cap[ital] ex[penditures], holding that flat," says Liam Burke, portfolio manager for the large growth Flag Inv Communications B fund (FTEBX), which manages $319.1 million in assets, "by 2000 the company will start generating some seriously interesting cash flow the kind that in such a short period most companies can't equal".
Robert M. Bowden retired from his job as accounts manager for a large trucking company with a plan to travel for himself.
In Canton, China, Mr. Chen was a sales manager for a large metal company, earning a salary that provided for him, his wife and their three sons.
Relaxing the secrecy could add to a surge in generic drug sales already under way, said a benefits manager for a large company.
In India, where Vinod had been a distribution manager for a large pharmaceutical company, the Chopras were unmistakably white collar and well-to-do.
A sales manager for another large slaughterhouse in Shandong Province, north of Jiangsu, said he was approached late last year by a buyer for S.P.L. offering what he described as rock-bottom prices for crude heparin.
On February 2nd, at a few minutes before 9 A.M., Maria Shwalb, a benefits manager for a large pharmaceutical company, was at her computer, waiting for the Izod Center shows to go on sale.
"I was a middle manager for a large steamship company, working 70-plus hours a week, traveling and answering over 300 e-mails per day in the evenings and on weekends," he writes.
