他刚接到这份工作的时候,有一次邀请首席执行官共进晚餐,席间不断地询问执行官对可预见的未来所采取的系列基本方案持何种观点,并对他进行抨击,一直到用餐完毕上咖啡的时候才算结束。
When he tookup that job, he invited the then CEO out to dinner, asked him what his vision was, and mauled him until, by coffee time, some sortof grand plan for the future had emerged.
如果我在刚当外交官的时候拥有这本书的话,我的外交官生涯估计早就结束了!
If I'd had a copy of this in my days as a boy diplomat, my Foreign Service career would have come to an even more abrupt halt!
AOL的拙劣表现在此刻尤其敏感,原因是时代华纳的首席执行官richard Parsons最近刚处理了一位活跃投资者Carl Icahn的攻击。
AOL's poor performance is particularly sensitive at the moment because Time Warner's chief executive, Richard Parsons, recently saw off an attack from Carl Icahn, an activist investor.
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