The litany of alleged abuse brought no corroborators out of the wings, even though the bullied big shots--HP's CarletonFiorina, Compaq's Capellas and Gateway's Theodore Waitt--have little to lose from snitching.
The milestone marks a coming-out party of sorts for the assiduously low-profile Hurd, a largely unsung NCR Corp. lifer who joined Hewlett-Packard 23 months ago, after the sudden ouster of star chief executive CarletonS. Fiorina.