If Mer has a not-so-hidden agenda, it is to make the French government more of a facilitator and less of a boss, the business role that officials have traditionally held and cherished.
Earlier this year, Mr Sarkozy dropped in on angry fishermen in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and promised a thorough review of European Union fishing quotas during the French presidency of the EU. France gives up this position at the end of December, yet nothing of the sort has happened.
Highlights: a mosaic of fruits de mer, scallops with quail eggs, roast chicken for two, a bitter chocolate mousse with ginger, and tarte Tatin.
Earlier this week, HP got a little boost from a Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) analyst who in a report said that HP's latest monochrome laser printers were priced less than Lexmark's, a fact that it says will help HP maintain its dominant market share in that segment.
Tessler knew something about this stuff, as a for-mer cochairman of Data Broadcasting and cofounder of CBSMarketWatch.com, both of which provide financial services to Web companies.
Darryl Lewis' options odyssey began in 1998, when, he says, he was approached by a Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people )broker, Jeanine Luteijn , who introduced herself as a member of Merrill's Private Client Group and dropped the name of a Microsoft colleague.
"It was more difficult to start a business here, " says Mer, suggesting that if he has his way, it won't be in the future.
The suit also cites an e-mail from a Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) employee to then-Merrill boss and compensation committee member David Komansky .
Martin, a former Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) executive, was brought in to help with the turnaround.
This past summer, Exsteam Software completed a project with Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) that reinvented the financial giant's customer account statement.
The charges related to accusations that Peter Bacanovic , Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), passed on a tip that ImClone Systems ' (nasdaq: IMCL - news - people ) chief executive was selling his stock in the company.
His attorney, Ronald Marron, said he plans to file a class action charging Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) with similar wrongdoing.
Arthur DiRocco, Amaranth's treasurer, led nine employees to Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), where they have set up a new subsidiary, Hedge Fund Infrastructure Services.
In the summer of 2006, Jeff Kronthal, a senior executive in Merrill Lynch's (nyse: MER - news - people ) structured products group, was fired after reportedly balking at then-Chief Executive Stanley O'Neal's demands that the firm get more aggressive in its risk-taking with mortgage securities.
A. and went to work for Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) in 1995.
Mer dismisses the widely held notion that his current problems arise from the fact that as a minister, he must persuade rather than command.
Who knows what the truth is, since these superstars exist far away from the rest of us in a land of Oscars, magazine covers, and swag bags filled with La Mer moisturizer.
It will also have implications for a pending case in which Enron shareholders have sued Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), Credit Suisse First Boston and others for being complicit in Enron's book-cooking.
Mer now gets to apply his stubbornness to the task of making France an easier place to start a business, which is something particularly close to his heart.
Already pending is a similar case involving Enron shareholders, who have sued Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), Credit Suisse First Boston and others.
With the psychology of the individual investor eroded by both the economic slowdown and market volatility, and corporate earnings reaching a defining low point, or bottom, the backdrop for Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people ) can only brighten.
Spitzer attributed comments to Henry Blodget , once an analyst at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), for example, that were actually made to him by a client.
Earlier this year, Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) agreed to sell its asset management group to BlackRock in exchange for a 49% ownership.
One of the conundrums facing Merrill (nyse: MER - news - people ) Chief Executive John Thain is the need to raise capital without taking a hit to an already depressed stock price.
BlackRock (nyse: BLK - news - people ) Chief Executive Laurence Fink would be a good get, except he seems destined for the top job at Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ), taking him off the market.
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