The parties eventually settled their dispute with Elliott appointing three of its "short-term" director nominees to the Hess board.
He also writes that before the war, Jay Garner, the retired general appointed as the first, short-term director of reconstruction and assistance efforts in Iraq, "had spent weeks walking the corridors of Washington, hat in hand".
There are aspects of Mr. Holland's article that I do agree with totally; those are the observations about short-term music directors.
"Consumers continue to be quite concerned about the short-term outlook," Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center, said in a statement.
"We expect the effect of the slowdown to be short-term," said Sze Pang Cheung, campaign director for Greenpeace in China.
"September's increase in the Consumer Confidence Index was due solely to an improvement in the short-term outlook," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center, in a statement.
While Americans' assessment of current business conditions "remains rather weak," the Consumer Confidence Index is at a three-year high "due to growing optimism about the short-term future," says Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board Consumer Research Center.
"Because we're color leaders in small appliances, we get in and out of color, even on a short-term basis," said Brian Maynard, director of marketing at KitchenAid, which has worked with Pantone on product color since 1986.
Some patients even had short-term improvements, but Russell Katz, director of the agency's division of neuropharmacologic drugs, warned that the result should not be taken as proof that the drug prevents Alzheimer's progression.
At some institutes, the available money doesn't come close to paying for all current short-term contracts, says Luis Sanz-Menéndirectorectof of the CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies in Madrid.
Under pressure from Wall Street to maximize short-term earnings, boards of directors frequently selected leaders for their charisma rather than their character.
