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...Legally, Meta’s directors have a responsibility to represent all shareholders, even if the chief executive controls who is elected to the board, said Steve Diamond, a corporate governance expert at Santa...
...“McLaren Grenache suddenly had perfume thanks to the wines of Steve Pannell and Yangarra, like Pinot.” Is Rayas ever mentioned in that tent? “All the time,” he responded rather wearily....
...“Omertà — the code of silence” — says Steve Turner, searching for a way to describe what happens to organisations when cronyism takes hold....
...But succession at the large buyout funds has been the biggest taboo in the industry because no one wants to be the one to ask, for instance, Steve Schwarzman when he’s leaving Blackstone....
...“My first impression is, it sounds low,” said Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, which already owns Facebook stock....
...Jackson called Landis and said: “Can you make me into a monster?” 3....
...Cunningham, chief executive of metering company Landis + GYR, who tells Fiona Harvey, the FT’s environment correspondent, all about smart grids and smart meters....
...An example of the kind of high-growth manufacturer identified by the research is the UK subsidiary of Landis + Gyr, a Swiss company that makes gas and electricity meters....
...Others question whether Mr Yang has the right stuff to fight off the approach of the ebullient Steve Ballmer....
...As Steve Landis, a portfolio manager with FH International, tells me: “There’s been a great technical bid for Argentine paper. But people have forgotten these are bonds, not magic beans.” Sell them....
...Justin Gatlin, the 100m Olympic and world champion and joint world record holder, and Floyd Landis, who won the 2006 Tour de France in initially inspirational style, were among other big names who failed...
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