Ms. Whitman: Well the CEO has changed and obviously CEOs have different points of view on the direction to take the company.

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It was losing height, that was certain: for a second it seemed as if it would crash into the Plaza Hotel, but instead it slid into the corridor between two skyscrapers and disappeared from view in the direction of the Hudson.

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