Mervyn King told business leaders in Leeds he was concerned about rising unemployment and falling house prices.
Mr King, whose business has been going for 35 years, said that burning the healthy trees had been a depressing experience.
But as the onetime PC king's business has soured, the company has been signaling that it intends to make peace with the middlemen it has long competed against.
Many apparently think the king's growing business clout is good for the country's overall economy.
Even if Dell wanted to retire as king of the PC business, his inflated stock price won't let him.
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Even if Dell wanted to retire as king of the PC business--an idea as unthinkable as Mick Jagger's giving up tight pants--his inflated stock price won't let him.
Platitudes aside, anointing the customer king is a tricky business.
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Of course, this is the television business, which means the title of king comes with an asterisk.
Its dividend will remain far above that of other global defense suppliers because Ian King and his subordinates run the business first and foremost for their shareholders.
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Overseas it is gaining huge chunks of business every week, much faster than rival Burger King (see box, p. 30).
Overseas it is gaining huge chunks of business every week, much faster than rival Burger King (see box, p. 221).
And one man, Vichai Raksriaksorn, founder and CEO of King Power, reigns over all of that business.
Apple is currently king of the hill and the most valuable business in the world, rescued from adolescent illness by the return of its charismatic founder, Steve Jobs.
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Cash is king because the impact of negative cash on a business will take your breath away.
What if your years of managing a Burger King in high school counted toward credit for a business degree in human resources?
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To some, this may call to mind the Blockbuster ( BLOAQ) experience, where the once king of video succumbed to a rival with a different business model, Netflix ( NFLX), and technological change (electronic delivery) that seems more compatible with the way its rival does business.
After a spell in business and a few years at the Treasury, he was enticed to King's College, Cambridge, which 61 years earlier another economist-aesthete, John Maynard Keynes, had joined as a lecturer, writing (with his mother's help) a letter of resignation from the civil service to his boss, a Sir Arthur Godley.
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The first Plantagenet king of England, Henry II, is important to contemporary small business owners because he founded the legal system that paved the way for modern entrepreneurship.
The result, says Roger King, a British-based expert on the global higher education business, can be more than 10% extra turnover for a university that runs its offshore business well.
McPeak and King said that rotations in loan portfolios over time are common through various business cycles.
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If the king does succeed in transforming Jordan into a regional, service-oriented business hub, it won't be a first for a small, resource-poor country.
The one in the Troll-King's hall (famous for its musical bits) and the whole business of turning Peer into a troll are hard to fathom.
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At Scotts' headquarters in Ohio, meanwhile, company spokesman Jim King said the suspension of deliveries would not have an immediate impact on either its business or its relationship with Kmart.
He dropped out in his final year at King's College in London in 2001, where he was studying chemistry and business management, because he won a contest to be a veejay on Channel V in India for a year.
This spectacular European outpost of New York's Guggenheim Museum will open its doors Saturday with a ceremony presided over by the king and queen of Spain and an international A-list of art, social and business world celebrities.
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Countless attempts were also made on the lives of bigger names, such as King Alfonso XII of Spain (1878), Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany (May and June 1878), Andrew Carnegie's business partner, Henry Clay Frick (Pittsburgh, 1892), a Serbian minister (Paris, 1893) and King Alfonso XIII and his English bride (Madrid, on their wedding day, 1906).
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