The IMF's mission head for Malawi, Tsidi Tsikata, said the new arrangement was subject to approval next month by the organisation's executive board.

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It is most familiar as the arrangement of the florets that make up a sunflower head.

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In an unusual arrangement, Bush became CEO and President of Northrop Grumman while DreamWorks Animation head Lewis W. Coleman assumed the role of non-executive Chairman of the Board.

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The arrangement arose out of his longstanding ties to Sulia CEO Jonathan Glick, who earlier was head of product development under Nisenholtz at the Times Co.

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To give the arrangement a more acceptable gloss, it will also bring in civilians, and will be led by the head of the interim government, Fakhruddin Ahmed, a former World Bank official.

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