But instead we were treated to the familiar sight of 535 procurers in chief out to save their pet projects.
Last year, eventual winner Jimmy Johnson had his crew chief kicked out.
Late Thursday, the Cambridge police chief spoke out in support of Crowley, saying his actions were "consistent with his training" and without bias.
It could mark a development in the software industry which Microsoft is trying to forestall by driving its chief competitor out of business.
Winding up his speech to the annual assembly of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the 70-year-old party chief lashed out against money politics.
Not Asian, not resident in the region, the IMF chief won out on the basis of the make-or-break influence his organization had on Crisis-hit Asian countries.
The fact that he seems to be stuck in the tackiest moments of the 1970s has somehow worked for the fashion retailer thus far (Charney started the company as local-labor integrated clothing seller in 1989), but accusations in the lawsuit filed Wednesday are enough to throw any chief executive out of power.
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He has carried out four of the five chief policies he set out in the election campaign: money for child care, a cut in the sales tax, tougher laws against street crime, and legislation to make politicians and the civil service more accountable.
Instead, its chief competitors turned out to be Chinese appliance makers, such as Haier and Guangdong Kelon.
Despite two days of testimony before lawmakers on Capitol Hill JPM chief Dimon came out relatively unscathed.
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"The chief superintendent put out an order that nobody else was to go in the water, " said Mr Burnell.
The Chandra Asri chief executive points out that his company's entry alone increased the regional capacity of plastics by 20%.
With an aura of defeat starting to infect its global sprawl of 31, 000 eateries, the board nudged out chief executive Jack M.
My answer is that any American police chief ultimately finds out that the single toughest strategy on urban crime is urban education.
"There are a lot of new players, both in politics and in business, " says Andreas Bunanta, former loan work-out chief at the Indonesian Bank Restructuring Agency (IBRA).
The moment was signature Steve Jobs: Standing on stage at the Macworld conference in San Francisco, Apple's chief executive pulled out an interoffice envelope and opened the flap.
Earlier this year, Mr. Cook coaxed Apple hardware chief Bob Mansfield out of retirement after his staff complained about working under his replacement, according to people familiar with Apple's hardware group.
So it is good to hear the chief secretary setting out the UK Government's intention to implement Silk and we look forward to a formal announcement on the way forward as soon as possible.
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Television pictures showed Mr. Musharraf, also a former army chief, striding out of the court room and into his waiting black SUV, which then speed out of the gates of the Islamabad High Court.
Only rarely can a chief executive jump out a forty-fourth-floor window after a board meeting (The Hudsucker Proxy), or will a boss send a message as dramatic as the horse's head left in a bed in The Godfather.
One of the founders they backed wanted to hire someone as chief operating officer, test him out and then promote him to chief executive.
And they've been angered, particularly by Musharraf's attempts in March to kick out the chief justice of the country.
Chief Justice Roberts pointed out that the Constitution does not specifically prohibit taxing inactivity.
Separately, cricket board chief Narayanaswamy Srinivasan ruled out an investigation into India's poor overseas performance in Tests.
The FTC chief did not rule out calls for future legislation, saying there are "clearly good arguments" to be made.
He wants the Chief Minister to find out if the planning process was to blame and whether it needed to change.
With Chief Executive Steve Jobs out on medical leave, Apple Inc.
Nokia has sounded out Google Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora about joining the company without success, a person familiar with the matter said.
The authors blame "cookbook medicine, " a fixed approach to diagnosis that focuses on a patient's chief complaint and ruling out the worse-case scenario.
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