Nearly a third of all CEOs who were fired last year left because they didn't live up to the expectations of increasingly demanding--and impatient--shareholders and boards.
And it demonstrates how impatient pro-Leveson peers are becoming.
He talks with a Brooklyn bluster and he tends to act out his sentences, so that when he describes the marshmallow task he takes on the body language of an impatient four-year-old.
Auditions take place in front of orchestra general manager Keith Lau and AYO founder and artistic director, Richard Pontzious, who has a reputation of being as impatient as you-know-who.
She unpicks other tangles too: the tense relationship between the impatient, ill-informed underground leadership in Poland and the divided, ill-led exiled government in London, sidelined and then dumped by the allies as the Soviet armies marched west.
The dedicated deep-value players are your Warren Buffett types, the avid followers of the Oracle of Omaha whose Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) invests primarily in unloved but asset-rich companies, whose stocks are depressed either because they are misunderstood or ignored by impatient investors with a short-term focus.
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It took so long for electronic ink screens to finally hit the market we feel a bit silly getting impatient for the next-generation, but the Kindle has been on the market for a year and a half now, Sony Reader models for twice that long, and still we're dealing with the same crummy 7:1 contrast ratio, 16 shade grayscale, and .74 second refresh rate.
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The underlying reasons seem to be that investors, often self-directed, are impatient and irrational.
Become increasingly impatient with longer lines, wait-times and delays as instant digital delivery of products and services become the norm.
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Although go-ahead middle-class Poles are impatient for change, others are fearful.
"It's true that in recent years the rate of improvement has slowed - we're impatient to do even better and that's why we are taking further decisive action to help all children reach their potential, " she said.
In a bid to offset the political cost of the wage cuts, and also to pre-empt demands from impatient EU partners, the government has announced a sweeping overhaul of the tax system, including a drive to collect more revenue from the rich.
Suddenly, common areas become overwhelmed with impatient commuters packed into dim, low-ceilinged spaces, waiting and waiting.
Impatient urgency is what caused former Hewlett-Packard Chair Patricia Dunn to spy on her board members.
He moves slowly and stiffly -- 56 years old and on the verge of retirement -- but he's impatient with protocol and evidently resentful about his lack of advancement.
Haier keeps producing new ideas such as fridges with locks on them (to keep dormitory mates from snaffling your tofu), compact washing machines (for clothes for pampered Japanese pets) and freezers with compartments that keep ice-cream soft (for impatient gluttons).
Perhaps understanding that the wireless customer base at large can be both fickle and impatient, the nation's fourth-largest carrier is wasting no time getting its 3G equipment set up -- the rollout begins, like, now (they claim half of NYC's hardware is already in place) and will continue through the next several years, with compatible handsets and peripherals hitting retail sometime in mid 2007.
While doctors are often very gadget-y, they are also impatient and too busy to deal with a lot of training.
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Steinbrenner was a controversial figure, often chastised for interfering in on-field decisions and for being impatient if the team underperformed.
And he is said to be untidy and impatient with paperwork, unlike the immaculate Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a chancellery man who had been in line for the job.
Though a diverse group, they share common traits: most are pragmatic businessmen from the north and centre-north, and all are impatient at the old guard leading their party.
On the other hand, he is untidy, impatient with paperwork and proved a poor co-ordinator between the chancellery on the one hand and the Social Democratic headquarters and parliamentary group on the other.
The entries are as varied as the names we bestow: toilet, toilette, klo (in Germany), water closet, WC (and the Gallic counterparts double-v c or, in this impatient age, just VC).
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They hired a scientist to come up with a formulation of chemicals that delivered nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in highly water-soluble form, so that an impatient gardener could give plants an instant shot to the leaves, so to speak.
It takes weeks to read, weighs as much as a Sunday roast and might do real harm if thrown from a moving vehicle or hurled (as impatient readers may wish to do around the 700-page mark) willy-nilly from an upper-storey window.
Early on, some of the British press, impatient for results, doubted the efficacy of the campaign -- only to change their tune when the Serbs did withdraw.
In 1998 U.S. Postal was a rag tag bunch whose best cyclist, Armstrong, was a cancer survivor and impatient hot dog who had yet to win a multi-stage race of any kind.
Another reason why French companies in aggregate have not done so well in China, says Wang Jiann-Yuh, director-general of the France-China Committee, part of MEDEF, the French employer's union, is that French businesspeople can be impatient, sometimes arrogant, and overly focused on short-term results.
You are high-energy or impulsive to the point of being impatient.
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