The roundtable's former chairman, Hank McKinnell, had to quit last year after he was pushed out of Pfizer, coincidentally with his own $200 million severance package.
It is necessarily the name for that which, turning away from the natural, the good, and the beautiful -- and away from the God whose communion gives life to all things -- has turned, instead, toward it's own isolation, severance, and death.
The investigation by the National Audit Office, published on Monday, said the BBC had "breached its own policies on severance too often without good reason".
The NAO report said the BBC had "breached its own policies on severance too often without good reason" and "put public trust at risk".
"The BBC has breached its own policies on severance too often without good reason," concluded the report, published in July.
My own abrupt and painful severance from the Times is the least of it, though revealing of his methods of defenestration.
Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "The BBC has too often breached its own already generous policies on severance payments.
Prepared to argue in his own defense that he deserves severance pay from the company that fired him, Mr. Li is nonetheless hunched low, with the microphone craning over to meet his mouth.
But the National Audit Office, which audits public-sector accounts, concluded that the BBC "breached its own already generous policies on severance payments" and blamed weak governance arrangements.As the BBC is financed by a compulsory levy on all television-owning households, politicians and viewers have been angered by the misspent money.
