Word: second-in-command
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Messerle’s unofficial second-in-command, Associate Director for Administration and Finance Regina Corry, and the Associate Director for Technology Development and Services John Howard have both accepted the severance package, the Countway employee said...
...rebels moved on the capital. He called U.S. Ambassador James Foley to ask for help getting out. "You haven't thought where you're going until now?" Foley asked with exasperation, according to a senior State Department official. As diplomats scrambled to find him an asylum, Moreno, the second-in-command at the U.S. embassy, set out for Aristide's home...
...study, chief operating officers can be likened to your appendix. Not only are they unnecessary, but they can also turn into expensive problems. The study, which will appear later this year in Strategic Management Journal, concludes that companies with a CEO-COO combination substantially underperform those without a second-in-command. For boards of directors, the COO position is always a thorny issue, particularly if they have strong-willed CEOs. Researchers examined 10 years' worth of data, from 1987 through 1996, for more than 400 companies in 21 industries to yield a sample of 3,168 firm-years. The bottom...
...dictator is the ideological inspiration for these loyalists, chances seem slim that he is directing attacks himself. "The communication involved," says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "would expose him too much to capture." Instead, U.S. officials believe, strategic direction for the resistance is left to Saddam's longtime second-in-command Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the highest-ranking regime official still at large. He was the target of a 1,000-soldier raid in Kirkuk last week. Al-Duri escaped, but the operation nabbed his deputy, who could potentially deliver a phone book of resistance commanders receiving money and orders...
...When she was a child in the coastal North Korean town of Kyongsong, Ryu and her five siblings enjoyed a comfortable life. Her father was second-in-command of a battalion, and four of the kids went to college. Ryu, now 35, majored in electrical engineering and even studied English. "Happy family," she says, remembering a few faltering words of English. In 1996, however, two years after North Korea's founder Kim Il Sung died, the famines worsened and Ryu's family was soon reduced to one meal...