The January talks between the banks appear to have been quite preliminary, with executives noting that Mr. Ackermann has spoken to executives from other American banks as well.
A survey published in April looked at preliminary data on executive pay.
A preliminary examination of executive pay in 2010, based on data available as of April 1, found that the paychecks for top American executives were growing again, after shrinking during the 2008-9 recession.
In conclusion, this study provides preliminary evidence for executive dysfunction in untreated menopausal women as women with HRT outperformed women without HRT on tests requiring directed attention, inhibition of inappropriate responses, and cognitive set switching.
[A9.] Another Play for Allied Domecq The Constellation Group, the world's largest wine producer, turned up the heat in the takeover battle for Allied Domecq, making a preliminary offer that executives involved in the talks said was worth about $14.3 billion.
While the executives emphasized that the discussions are in the most preliminary stage -- one executive called them talks about talks -- it underscores a sense of urgency among airline operators to seek partners, in the hope of increasing profit in an industry where many companies, particularly in Europe, have seen margins erode.
A divided board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation voted to make public a preliminary proposal for using executive compensation as a factor in assessing the fees that banks must pay for the deposit insurance fund.
The following month, he signed a preliminary agreement with Nassau County Executive Thomas R. Suozzi for a $1 billion redevelopment project on 77 acres of county-owned land, including the coliseum and the tower, which would include a hotel, condominiums and an observation deck.
Genzyme gave investors something to smile about on Tuesday when the biotech's chief executive reported preliminary earnings at a healthcare conference in San Francisco, with good near-term and long-term forecasts sandwiching a lower-than-expected estimate in the middle.
We conducted a pilot study by distributing the preliminary questionnaire to IT executives in several supply chain oriented companies located in a midwest city.
Soon after the rocket blew apart, Orbital executives said preliminary evidence pointed to a failure in one of the two 50-year-old Soviet-made engines that powered it.
