Stanley Sporkin, a retired judge who was regarded as one of the S.E.C.'s most aggressive enforcement chiefs when he served, in the nineteen-seventies, told me, "People on Wall Street are going to be coming to work with brown pants on.
Alternatively, it is called utility computing as a nod to an analogy employed by its most aggressive advocates, including the chief executive of Salesforce, Marc Benioff.
The warning, by Iran's military chief, was the latest and most aggressive volley in a nearly daily exchange of barbed statements between Iran and the United States.
"The expected increase in taxation will hit disproportionately those companies that have used the most aggressive measures to minimize their taxes," said Eric Kraus, chief strategist at the Sovlink Securities brokerage firm in Moscow.
Still, Fox and Mike Darnell, its reality programming chief, are often mentioned as the most aggressive competitors in the genre.
Singled out for criticism is the Office of Thrift Supervision, which oversaw some of the nation's most aggressive lenders, including Countrywide Financial, IndyMac and Washington Mutual, whose chief executive was Kerry Killinger.
By Jonathan Blitzer August 1, 2017 As the Secretary of Homeland Security, John Kelly, President Trump's new White House chief of staff, was one of the most aggressive enforcers of immigration law in recent American history.
Under chief executive Tony Ball, Sky is at its most aggressive, last week making five-year supply pacts with NTL, its largest cable rival, while simultaneously promising to market its own enhanced video recorders.
"It's the one thing we have seen in our adult lives that could take us away from imported oil," said Aubrey McClendon, chief executive of Chesapeake Energy, one of the most aggressive drillers.
"I.B.M. has the most aggressive internationalization strategy of any of the major information technology companies," said Frank Gens, chief analyst of IDC, a research firm.
