Nassau, one of the nation's wealthiest counties, approached the brink of bankruptcy under the previous county executive, Thomas S. Gulotta.
The initiative comes four years after Tesco Value – the £1bn range of cheap, own-brand products that defined the company for the past 20 years – was relaunched as Everyday Value under the previous chief executive, Philip Clarke.
I.B.M. itself helped spur the shift when it introduced its first personal computer in 1981, a project started under the previous chief executive, Frank T. Cary, but completed by Mr. Opel.
"The had a crazy expansion plan under the previous chief executive [Dany Bahar] who was trying to turn Lotus into a British Ferrari... and that simply fell apart very quickly," he said.
She said: "The people of Scotland overwhelmingly trust the Scottish government headed by Alex Salmond - 71% trust the Scottish government to act in Scotland's interests, up from 51% under the previous Lab/Lib Executive in 2006, and compared to just 18% who trust the UK government.
Under Moynihan and the previous chief executive Andy Hunt, the BOA employed Sir Clive Woodward to launch contentious expansions first into coaching and then into coach education that took it into conflict with UK Sport and some governing bodies.
The Nassau fiscal mess created under the watch of the previous county executive, Thomas S. Gulotta, whose government held the line on property taxes while increasing spending, is so great, however, that there is almost nowhere to go but up.
And it's not as if The New York Times has been a model of seamless transitions in the executive suite — the departure of the previous chief executive, Janet Robinson, was not handled forthrightly, and her replacement, Mark Thompson, has come under scrutiny for serious problems he failed to notice in his previous job.
Julie Kirkbride, appointed by party leader Michael Howard as culture spokeswoman when he took over from Iain Duncan Smith, reacted coolly to a report commissioned under the previous Tory regime from the television executive David Elstein, which recommended scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with subscription.
Mr. Kaeser, reported as the likely replacement for Mr. Löscher, is a 56-year-old Siemens veteran credited with keeping the company on a steady course after the previous chief executive, Klaus Kleinfeld, resigned under pressure in 2007.
