Happily for Marvel, Disney is no longer the corporate control-freak it was under its former boss, Michael Eisner.
Until Colonel Qaddafi's revolution in 1969, Libya could scarcely be considered a country, divided as it was under its former king into three separate provinces, each with myriad tribes of rural, semi-nomadic herders.
Right now, Mr. Fishman's overriding goal is to turn the apartment workers' union -- Local 32B-32J of the Service Employees International Union -- into a potent, progressive force after it languished for two decades under its former president.
It is beyond doubt that the ISI under its former head, Hamid Gul, aided the Taliban and had dubious links with extremist Islam.
Tyco International admitted for the first time that it had used financial gimmickry to inflate its earnings under its former chief executive, L. Dennis Kozlowski, who has been charged with looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Under its former name Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isis), it was formed in April 2013, growing out of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).
George Street, under its former management, was one.
Isa, under its former kitchen team, could almost be described as an experimental restaurant.
Its staff numbers about five dozen, after reductions under its former director, Kristen Engberg.
Tyco's board has been criticized for laxity under its former chairman, L. Dennis Kozlowski.
"They were the result of the SFO, under its former leadership, omitting pertinent facts and making misrepresentations to the court.
