Wenger tried, as all the managers of big clubs tried, to sign Rooney.
Top managers of Big Fuel, who include Jon Bond, chief executive, are to remain.
Demanding that laid-off workers be reinstated, mobs of militants have confronted owners and managers of big businesses, often assaulting them and damaging equipment.
This would not be a problem if mortgage traders and managers of big loan portfolios, like Fannie Mae, did not typically hedge their holdings with Treasuries.
The firm spends most of its time dealing with senior managers of big companies rather than with potential heretics such as new recruits, middle managers or creators of innovative start-ups.
IT IS the sort of nightmare that managers of big firms expect to encounter only during "what if" games at corporate weekends: imagine that your company all of a sudden loses most of its profits.
Referring to Mr. Gupta, he said, "He made us believe that we don't just have to be the India managers of big companies but lead from the very top and make India matter".
They tend to get negotiated away in local deals between officials and the managers of big state firms who have been given greater incentives to meet their economic targets, create jobs, raise output and suchlike.
Neoclassical theory has little to say on these matters or on the fact that in present-day capitalist society the managers of big business are virtually in a position to fix their own personal incomes.
According to Winthrop Smith, head of private banking at Merrill Lynch, "People were more widely diversified than you might have expected".A large amount of wealth during the 1990s, particularly in America, was created by share options held by the managers of big, established companies.
