But their most important job is to whistle,shout,flap their arms and run about crazily to turn the attention of an unhappy, with sharp horns away from a fallen rider.
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It also bulked up its asset-management and private-banking arms, run by Jacques d'Estais (who used to head the investment bank).
But as it turned out, the German government was just as unrelaxed about allowing EADS - owner of Airbus and therefore a strategically important manufacturer - to run itself in an arms-length and commercial way.