Mark, a master chief petty officer and the ranking noncommissioned officer on the operation, crouched on one knee beside the open door of the lead helicopter.

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EBay sent a German manager to lead the China operation and brought in a chief technology officer from the United States.

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"The breakthrough UI defines a new language for human-device interaction that is built ground-up for eye-free operation, " said Boaz Zilberman, chief executive officer of Project RAY.

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Detective Superintendent Michael Gradwell then discredited a number of the claims made about the operation by the island's former deputy chief officer, Lenny Harper.

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Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of BP's exploration and production division, denied the operation had failed and said the company was trying to figure out a way of providing heat at a depth of 5, 000 feet to melt the crystals.

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When he left in 1995 to become chief operating officer of MBf Capital, Leisure Holidays had become a fast-growing operation selling time-share property across Asia.

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"If you look at what most economists were saying, it was unlikely that we were going to get any more than Operation Twist, but the market may have been expecting more dramatic action, " says Maury Fertig, chief investment officer at Relative Value Partners.

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