He suggests training on a slide board in socks sliding from side to side on the slick surface to work the thigh muscles.

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Ken ignored the advice to retire and the slide continued until 1992 when the DEC board finally replaced him with an insider.

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And Hamada notes that the buyback plan was actually discussed by the board before the recent market slide drove the stock down even further.

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But the meat of the board deck itself should be as concise and to the point as a single slide with key discussion items.

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Task World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand with explaining every slide of a pawn or block of a bishop and he might lose sight of the board.

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