Word: henderson
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...public shaming of feng shui hasn't stopped at that. In October, the property developer Henderson Land was derided for assigning whimsical numbers to the top levels of a luxury apartment building in order to make them accord with local numerology, which holds that 6 and 8 are auspicious. Record prices were paid for so-called 68th-floor and 88th-floor duplexes when in reality they were on the 43rd and 44th floors and the 45th and 46th floors respectively. Shortly after, bloggers chortled and tabloids leered over the case of a 55-year-old bulldozer operator who was accused...
...surprise shake-up, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson was ousted by the company's board after just eight months on the job. The troubled auto giant--now 60% owned by the U.S. government--has shown modest signs of economic improvement, but Henderson, a company veteran, clashed with directors seeking quicker change. Chairman Ed Whitacre, a former head of AT&T, will take over as interim...
...Henderson is named CEO after the White House forces out former boss Rick Wagoner...
...Henderson is abruptly fired...
...that her voting history was slightly better than initially depicted. Not surprisingly, the "working mother" excuse sent feminists into a tizzy and created doubts for some of Whitman's base of Republican women. "I raised a family and ran a business and still managed to vote," sniffed Elaine Henderson, who went to hear Whitman speak in Rancho Mirage. "I'm just not happy with her explanation. I'd like the truth. If she wasn't interested in politics, that...