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They tacitly say that the ceo is a god like figure --- and everybody else is only one step ahead of being an idiot.
Minimum Wage and CEO Pay, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Come on, you have to hand it to the man, at least he is bold enough to stake his opinion-I’m sure if you heard other grocery chain ceo’s opinions, you would find a point of disagreement.
Whole Foods Boycott 2009
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Andrew Lack, Sony Music Entertainment’s chairman and ceo, is slated to run Sony BMG, with Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, chairman and chief executive of BMG, as chairman of the board, the new company to be equally owned by Sony and Bertelsmann.
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If apartheid in south africa and welfare reform are the most important issues to a black man, or SEC regulations is the most important issue to a ceo, that is what the should, and usually will, base their vote on.
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That is a good look ... we need more artists / label ceo's to have this mentality ... (not to
SOHH.com Dailies 2008
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the ceo is a real pig. never analyse this himself and always let his ppl do the work
More details on Motorola’s Android efforts emerge « Boy Genius Report 2008
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(since our ceo is a great guy and we need to do what the boss says anyways, otherwise we loose our job) to this hype t-shirt.
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(since our ceo is a great guy and we need to do what the boss says anyways, otherwise we loose our job) to this hype t-shirt.
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If you and I the average people were to do something like these so call ceo’s have done we would be paying the rest of our lives.
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"ceo", no less! and whaddaya know, he's the janitor, too....
Wingnut welfare and pearl clutching: a match made in heaven. CC 2008
bilby commented on the word ceo
"In 1980, the average American CEO made 45 times what their employees made. By 2003, they were making 254 times what their workers made. After 8 years of Bush, they now make over 400 times what their average employee makes. How this can happen at publicly held companies is beyond reason. In Britain, the average CEO makes 28 times what their average employee makes. In Japan, it's only 17 times!"
- Michael Moore, Here's How to Fix the Wall Street Mess ..., shadowpress.org, cited 26 Feb 2009.
February 26, 2009