On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

The company's board of directors forced then – Chairman and CEO Rick Scott to resign at the beginning of the federal investigation ; Scott was subsequently elected Governor of Florida in 2010.

Famous residents both past and present have included Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, his son Enrique Iglesias, pro golfer Raymond Floyd, coaches Rick Pitino and Don Shula, US Senator George Smathers, Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi of Saudi Arabia, television host Don Francisco, billionaire investor Carl Icahn, co-founder of Calvin Klein Barry Schwartz, billionaire developer Donny Soffer, banker and developer Jamie Gilinski, steel executive Leroy Schecter, wireless executive Rajendra Singh, radio magnate Raul Alarcon, real estate billionaire Peter Breton, coal and oil executive Christopher F. Viegas, Perry Ellis head George Feldenkreis, former Philadelphia Eagles owner and billionaire art collector Norman Braman, heiress and philanthropist Suzie Linden, and former cable company CEO Ken Bagwell.

General Motors Chairman and former CEO Rick Wagoner announced during a news conference on February 17, 2009 that Saturn will remain in operation through the end of the planned lifecycle for all Saturn products ( 2010 – 11 ).

The current President, CEO is Frederick " Rick " J. Piccolo.

St. Albans graduates include former Vice President Al Gore, former U. S. Senator Evan Bayh, U. S. Senator Michael Bennet, U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., former Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., Seattle Mariners pitcher Danny Hultzen, former Congressman Harold Ford Jr., former Governor of Connecticut John Davis Lodge, Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins and Space Shuttle Commander Frederick " Rick " Hauck, former, NFL All-Pro and Baltimore Raven Jonathan Ogden, Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor Jeffrey Wright, journalists David Ignatius, David Plotz, Ian Urbina, former Washington Post publisher and CEO, and current CSPAN executive Bo Jones, former Washington Post chairman Donald Graham, and Fox News host Brit Hume.

* 1984-1985 Rick Stamberger ; President and CEO, SmartBrief

* Rick Goings: CEO of Tupperware

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

The former board included chairman Rick Snyder, former interim CEO, George Krauss, Douglas Lacey, Joseph Parham, Jr, Quincy Allen, David E. Russell, and Scott Galloway.

Its management team included Joseph Scanlon as president / CEO and retired National Hockey League ( NHL ) player Rick Vaive as head coach.

* S. Rick Fedrizzi, President, CEO and founding Chairman of the United States Green Building Council

Hansen is currently president and CEO of the Rick Hansen Foundation, which has generated more than $ 200 million for spinal cord injury-related programs and Hansen was noted as " the driving force " in the development of the 48 million dollars iCORD houses, an information network designed to track and record " best practices " in spinal cord treatment across the country and internationally, as well as the Rick Hansen Spinal Cord Injury Registry, allowing doctors and experts across the country to share vital information on what works and what doesn't for specific kinds of spinal cord injuries.

* President and CEO, Rick Hansen Foundation ( 1997 – Present )

In late 2003, General Motors, then led by CEO Rick Wagoner, officially canceled the EV1 program.

In 2006, former GM Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner stated that his worst decision during his tenure at GM was " axing the EV1 electric-car program and not putting the right resources into hybrids.

CarMax is a used car auto superstore concept developed in 1991 at Circuit City by Austin Ligon, then Circuit City Sr. VP Planning, and Rick Sharp, then Circuit City CEO.

Recent Climate One guests include then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt, Chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning IPCC Rajendra Pachauri, and General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner.

Following the raids, the Columbia / HCA board of directors forced Rick Scott to resign as Chairman and CEO.

* Richard L. Scott ( aka Rick Scott ) ( former Chairman and CEO )

Liverpool's then CEO, Rick Parry threatened to move Liverpool into a neighbouring borough on Merseyside because the only other site he considered viable was to become a residential estate in Garston.

He also began recording a rock music album, Crunk Rock ; in May 2006 he began recording in Las Vegas, Nevada because rock band The Killers was recording its upcoming album Sam's Town there and the East Side Boyz signed a new deal with Rick Robinson aka Double R CEO and Founder of IMG Recordings, which the album got pushed back to 2013.

The deal brought 1979 NL Rookie of the Year pitcher Rick Sutcliffe from the Cleveland Indians.

Rick Wakeman plays the clavichord in the track " The Battle " from the album Journey to the Centre of the Earth.

Dr. Rick Strassman, while conducting DMT research in the 1990s at the University of New Mexico, advanced the controversial hypothesis that a massive release of DMT from the pineal gland prior to death or near death was the cause of the near death experience ( NDE ) phenomenon.

" Both editions attracted signatures from respected design practitioners and thinkers, for example ; Rudy VanderLans, Erik Spiekermann, Ellen Lupton and Rick Poynor.

Bogart gained his first real romantic lead in 1942's Casablanca, playing Rick Blaine, the hard-pressed expatriate nightclub owner, hiding from the past and negotiating a fine line among Nazis, the French underground, the Vichy prefect and unresolved feelings for his ex-girlfriend.

Examples would be: Tolkien's Morgoth of The Silmarillion as well as Sauron, the King of the Nazgûl and the others of the Nine Riders from The Lord of the Rings, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter series, Lasky's Kludd and Nyra of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, Brooks's Warlock Lord of The Sword of Shannara, Jordan's Dark One of The Wheel of Time, and Eddings ' Torak of The Belgariad and Zandramas of The Malloreon, Rick Riordan's Kronos of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Goodkind's Darken Rahl and Emperor Jagang of The Sword of Truth, Dart-Thornton's Moragon, and Paolini's Galbatorix of The Inheritance Cycle.

Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song " Public Enemy Number One " Rubin had heard from Andre " Doctor Dré " Brown.

The influence of restaurateur Rick Stein can be seen in the port, and tourists travel from long distances to eat at his restaurant or cafés.

Aided by a 27-yard completion from quarterback Joe Theismann to tight end Rick Walker, four runs and a 15-yard reception by running back John Riggins, and a 12-yard run from Theismann himself, the Redskins marched 80 yards in 11 plays to score on wide receiver Alvin Garrett's 4-yard touchdown reception.

Rick Danko and Robbie Robertson are namechecked in the lyrics of " The Swish " from The Hold Steady's 2004 debut album Almost Killed Me.

In early 1989, the Unicode working group expanded to include Ken Whistler and Mike Kernaghan of Metaphor, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Joan Aliprand of RLG, and Glenn Wright of Sun Microsystems, and in 1990 Michel Suignard and Asmus Freytag from Microsoft and Rick McGowan of NeXT joined the group.

* Excerpt from the report on the Rick Ross Institute Web sit

In 2006, Rick Jore of Montana became the first Constitution Party candidate elected to a state-level office, although the Constitution Party of Montana had disaffiliated from the national party a short time before the election.

From here the River Axe rises up from a deep sump where progressive depth records for cave diving in the British Isles have been set: firstly by Farr () in 1977, then Rob Parker () in 1985, and finally by John Volanthen and Rick Stanton () in 2004.

Nicks finally called on John Shanks to produce the remainder of the album, with additional contributions from David Kahne, Rick Nowels, Pierre Marchand, and Jeff Trott.

University teacher Rick Mansfield stated in an online review of a preview copy that it is " the edition of the TNIV I wish I had been using from the very beginning.

However, he was far from alone, as the Broncs ' rosters included Rick Monday, manager John McNamara, Vearl (" Snag ") Moore, Thorton (" Kip ") Kipper, Antonio Perez, Ron Koepper, Delmer Owen, Dick Green, Bud Swan, Bert Campaneris, John Israel, Dave Duncan, Al Heist, and as a player, later coach-manager Robert (" Gabby ") Williams.

* " Cold Blooded " ( song ), the title track from Rick James's 1983 album

* Teaching by Asking Instead of by Telling, an example from Rick Garlikov

* British — Ali Campbell: " Nothing Ever Changes ( Pierrot )", from Flying High ( 2009 ); David Bowie: Pierrot in Turquoise ( 1993 ; includes following songs from the film of the same title: " Threepenny Pierrot ", " Columbine ", " The Mirror ", " When I Live My Dream & 2 "); Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix: " Birthplace of Harlequin ", " Columbine Confused ", " Pierrot's Song of Positive Thinking ", and " Pierrot in the Roof Garden ", from The Entropy Tango and Gloriana Demo Sessions ( 2008 ); Petula Clark: " Pierrot pendu " (" Hanged Pierrot "), from Hello Mister Brown ( 1966 ); Placebo: " Pierrot the Clown ", from Meds ( 2006 ); Rick Wakeman: " The Dancing Pierrot ", from The Art in Music Trilogy ( 1999 ); Soft Machine: " Thank You Pierrot Lunaire ", from Volume Two ( 1969 ).