By 2004, an executive from Silicon Valley Bank was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle after leading a contingent of VCs back to the Holy Land saying Israel was poised to explode again.

2004年，旧金山纪事报引用了硅谷银行的一位主管带领一支风投队伍回到圣地后说的一句话，他说以色列随时准备着在爆发一次。

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Chairman Ratan Tata also hired Carl-Peter Forster, the former head of General Motor Co. 's European unit, as the chief executive officer. Ralf Speth took over as the CEO of Jaguar Land Rover.

塔塔董事长拉坦•塔塔还聘请了通用汽车公司的欧洲部门前负责人卡尔·皮特·福斯特为首席行政执行官，拉尔·斯佩思为捷豹路虎首席执行官。

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The deal was apparently struck when Exxon's chief executive, Rex Tillerson, entertained Bob Simpson, XTO's boss, at a quail hunt on company land in Texas.

这笔交易看上去是在埃克森美孚公司首席执行官雷克斯·蒂勒森在其得克萨斯州公司土地上为招待XTO的老板鲍勃·辛普森而举行的鹌鹑狩猎活动时达成的。

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That approach can land an executive in jail when the deals he approved torpedo the company--and there is nothing but a bunch of hopeful spin to explain them.

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Richard Land, an executive with the Southern Baptist Convention, said the proposed change wouldn't be acceptable to most in the church.

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All this suggests that even in America, the land of the superstar chief executive, boards are not bosses' poodles.

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