While some supported Mossadegh, most senior ones did not.
Stocks for which the ten most senior ones together paid little more than £0.5m increased in value to £107m.Making money, even lots of it, is no crime.
That's one reason why most seniors I know are passionate about education.
Will the fact that it was deemed necessary to jettison the most senior player, one of high accomplishment, in order to clear the path for the team's redevelopment be seen as an indication of weakness in the system – a failure of management as many would like to view it?
She certainly didn't imagine she would become one of the most senior investors at one of the oldest venture firms in the country.
I thought about my old colleague, a junior doctor; the A&E registrar, who probably has been a junior doctor for more than 10 years of her life, and was one of the most senior doctors on duty that night.
"Maybe it didn't happen on my watch, but I'm the most senior spokesman, the one who can make a commitment about what we will do from now on," she said.
"It is safe to assume it is being handled at the most senior levels," said one source.
The fears of Britain's most senior serving diplomats, one of whom described the Tory plans as "bonkers", are only being voiced in private.
That is crucial, because News International subsequently issued a series of denials sanctioned by its most senior executives, including one in July 2009 which accused the Guardian, the Observer's sister paper, of choosing to "mislead the British public" when it claimed News of the World journalists were engaged in systematic phone-hacking.
