"The presentation from Chairman Arafat was organized, it was serious, he went through methodically his concerns," the official said.
During the NBC presentation, Ted Harbert, chairman of NBC Broadcasting, elaborated on remarks he made on Sunday during a conference call in which he castigated Dish Network for introducing Auto Hop, a service that will enable subscribers to automatically skip commercials on most prime-time broadcast shows.
By April 1960, when Thomas Bennett made his last presentation as chairman of the Development Corporation, the town's population had reached 51,700; 2289000 sqft of factory and other industrial space had been provided; 21,800 people were employed, nearly 60% of whom worked in manufacturing industry; and only seventy people were registered as unemployed.
The executives from Allstate making the 90-minute presentation were Thomas J. Wilson, chairman, president and chief executive; Mark LaNeve, who joined Allstate in October as chief marketing officer from G.M., where he had been vice president for sales, service and marketing; and Lisa Cochrane, vice president for marketing.
The presentation by John Perriss, chairman and chief executive at Zenith Media in London, came after -- and echoed -- Mr. Coen's.
In a media presentation, Dieter Zetsche, chairman of Daimler AG, said that the V-8 offered the performance of the previous V-12 with the fuel economy of the previous V-6.
In a meandering presentation, Mr. Einhorn, chairman of Greenlight Capital, covered countries and companies all over the globe (short Japan, bearish on China, stoked about Norway), spending a minute or two on each, and even pitched something called GO-UPS.
Speaking after the presentation, AOL Time Warner's chairman, Stephen M. Case, said AOL's executives had been distracted by cashing in on big deals to sell online advertising, capitalizing on its members instead of catering to them.
People who attended said that at the next presentation, Viacom's chairman, Mr. Redstone, commended a handful of Viacom executives but failed to mention the company's president, Mel Karmazin, who skipped this year's event.
The presentation by John J. Dooner Jr., chairman and chief executive, and Sean F. Orr, executive vice president and chief financial officer, came as Interpublic grapples with numerous serious operational and financial problems that led Standard & Poor's three days ago to downgrade its long-term corporate credit to one level above junk status.
