Urgent Congressional and executive branch investigations are called for.
Some investors, including Fidelity Worldwide Investment, called this month for an urgent review of executive pay practices, saying excessive paychecks hurt confidence in companies' management teams.
"Our urgent task as Executive Board members is to help UNICEF optimize its contribution to accelerating achievement of the MDGs," said His Excellency Dr. Abulkalam Abdul Momen, Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the UN and President of the 2010 UNICEF Executive Board.
Analysts said a new management structure, possibly more decentralized but also with a clearer system of checks, was all the more urgent, with top executives apparently unaware of the emissions test cheating despite a tight control on decisions.
But toward the end of the month, amfAR executives started receiving urgent emails from Weinstein Company executives saying the $600,000 payment had to land in ART's bank account on June 1.
For the morning, that is likely to mean an approach that is "a little harder, a little more urgent," said Jim Murphy, the executive producer of "Good Morning America".
The Ulster Unionist party's health committee spokesperson, Jo-Anne Dobson, called for an "urgent" meeting of the executive to deal with the ongoing financial pressures.
A small group of shareholder advocates delivered an urgent message to top executives at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago: the bank's risk controls needed to be improved.
I sent urgent emails to four United Airlines executives, including Jeff Smisek, the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of the $3 billion company.
Brown, 59, arrived at the company's offices for a staff meeting one recent morning but was summoned to an urgent call from an I.B.M. executive.
