"I think Gutierrez is a major uptick from past management".
But if one slips past, management lets it go.
The accord would be a significant step toward resolving past management missteps, analysts said.
There were some problems with the past management, and there was a chance it wasn't going to happen".
The effort to sell the company comes in the wake of intense legal scrutiny of its past management.
"Trying to recreate what happened three years ago without being able to trust what past management did is an incredibly difficult undertaking," Mr. Kamman said.
In the past, management has often surrendered to the demands of dockworkers -- granting them fat wages and benefits -- instead of enduring a strike or slowdown.
"In the past, management would simply send the police to attack the workers," a Maruti employee explained outside the plant a couple of weeks ago.
These are important rights because in past management-led buyouts, executives have scrambled to line up financing, sometimes failing miserably with little consequence.
A few ranking leaders were singled out for criticism by the review board, including Cardinals Edward Egan of New York and Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, who have defended their past management of rogue priests.
