Be that as it may, Waterloo's confidence in its long-running leaders seems stronger than ever before, because co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis have just been made co-chairmen of the board... presumably just so they can crack jokes about running "dual-core" board meetings.

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In September, HP admitted it hired private detectives who used pre-texting--or false pretenses--to get the personal phone records of nine journalists, seven directors and two HP employees in an effort to squash a long-running series of leaks from the company's board of directors.

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In September, HP (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) admitted it hired private detectives who used pre-texting--or false pretenses--to get the personal phone records of nine journalists, seven directors and two HP employees in an effort to squash a long-running series of leaks from the company's board of directors.

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Coe: Good running is the ability to have a very well defined on-board computer.

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The bill would make the board responsible for much of the day-to-day running of the service in England.

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And corporate-audit clients would also have to subscribe to the board's running costs.

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It will now be up to the NHS board, which will take charge of the day-to-day running of the health service from April, to make sure what is set out is achieved.

BBC: NHS mandate 'a historic moment'

Indeed, when Congress and President Obama decide over the next month how they are going to keep the government running through Sept. 30, lawmakers will have the opportunity to adjust the across-the-board spending cuts any way they want.

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While the bank's 20-strong supervisory board watched over its four-man executive board (whose salaries are declared), the committee got on with running the bank without revealing its executives' remuneration.

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But in a classic bait-and-switch move, the GISAID board changed that policy after the database was up and running, and now they can sit on data as long as they want.

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The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence also fell, for the third month running, reaching a two-year low.

ECONOMIST: Rates come down

Aides to City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a Manhattan Democrat who is running for mayor, said last year that attorneys for the council reviewed the sugary-drink issue and determined that the Board of Health had the right to impose the regulations.

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