It was not until he moved across the porch that he became aware of them, and then it was too late.

And then I became aware that she, too, glanced at me surreptitiously.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

The British, although suffering considerable losses, noted the defection of the Marylanders, made a stand, then turned and attacked Morgan who became greatly outnumbered and had to retire.

I became fifteen, sixteen, then twenty, and still Tessie Alpert sat on the porch with a rose in her hair, and Alfred got richer and sicker with diabetes.

Mr. Banks was always called Banks the Butcher until he left town and the shop passed over to Meltzer the Scholar who then became automatically Meltzer the Butcher.

His problem then became one of restraining the American fighters who wanted to clean out the Vermejo by force immediately.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

Radio broadcasts, however -- now that even plain people could afford `` loud speakers '' on their sets -- held old fans to the major-league races and attracted new ones, chiefly women, who through what the philosopher called the ineluctable modality of audition, became first inured, then attracted, then addicted to the long afternoon recitals of the doings in some distant baseball park.

Pete frowned slightly, then became sad and moody.

To the German pilot in the bomber the rocket became a faint black speck, hurtling through the sky at the then incredible speed of 420 m.p.h..

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

He started out as a stickman, then became a pit boss until the Club found him crossroading.

Hence, Apollo then became a master of the lyre.

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

Aramaic gradually became the lingua franca throughout the Middle East, with the script at first complementing and then displacing Assyrian cuneiform as the predominant writing system.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

The first Abstract Expressionists were considered madmen to give up their brushes and rely on the sheer force of energy to leave an image, but then the import of atomic bombs, all atomic energy, became realized, and art found no better way of expressing its power.

Abensberg then lost its independence and became a part of the Duchy of Bavaria, and from then on was administered by a ducal official, the so-called caretaker.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

When Troy was sacked by the Greeks, Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then traveled to Italy and became progenitors of Romans.

Ajax then became an Attic hero ; he was worshiped at Athens, where he had a statue in the market-place, and the tribe Aiantis was named after him.

William F. Miller was interim CEO until September of that year, when Whitney G. Lynn became interim president and CEO and then continued to have a succession of CEOs including Dale Fuller and Tod Nielsen.

Nielsen remained with the company until January 2009, when he accepted the position of Chief Operating Officer at VMware ; CFO Erik Prusch then took over as Acting President and CEO.

If that business is a subsidiary which has considerably more independence then the title might be known as Chairman and CEO ( for example, Philip I. Kent of Turner Broadcasting System in Time Warner ).

There is much variation ; often the CEO also holds the title of President, while in other organizations if there is a separate CEO, the President is then second highest-ranking position.

If the corporate President is not the COO ( such as Richard Parsons of Time Warner from 1995 – 2001 ), then many division heads report directly to the CEO themselves, with the President taking on special assignments from the CEO.

Capella's former role of president was not filled as the executives who reported to him then reported directly to the CEO.

On May 15, 1999, then Red Sox CEO John Harrington announced plans for a new Fenway Park to be built near the existing structure.

For example: if, while dining at a restaurant, you hear the CEO of Company A at the next table telling the CFO that the company's profits will be higher than expected, and then you buy the stock, you are not guilty of insider trading unless there was some closer connection between you, the company, or the company officers.

Jobs returned to Apple as a consultant in 1997 and then after the 4th of July weekend the same year became interim CEO.

He was then replaced in 1988 by the former manager of German computer company Nixdorf Computer AG, Arno Bohn, who made some costly miscalculations that led to his dismissal soon after, along with that of the development director, Dr. Ulrich Bez, who was formerly responsible for BMW's Z1 model, and today is CEO of Aston Martin.

On January 8, 1994, Hayao Nakayama, then CEO of Sega, ordered his company to make a 32-bit cartridge based console that would be in stores by Christmas 1994.

The Monk then goes off to kill Wayforward Technologies II's CEO, Gordon Way, due to a misunderstanding.

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.

InfoWorld magazine editor Stewart Alsop helped popularize its use in this way by lampooning Bill Gates, then CEO of Microsoft, with a Golden Vaporware award for the 18-month late release of Microsoft's first version of Windows in 1985.

Pharmacia, which then was still a small company, was contacted in 1943 and its CEO Elis Göth was very interested.

In 1990, Marshall Industries ( NYSE: MI, 1984 – 1999 ) CEO, Robert Rodin, trained with the then 90-year-old Deming and his colleague Nida Backaitus.

In effect, Picou, then chairman and CEO of Real Times, Inc., led what was then labeled a " Sengstacke family-led " deal to facilitate trust beneficiaries and other Sengstacke family shareholders to agree to the sale of the company.

The company found itself in the midst of a management crisis starting in March 2005 that resulted in a loss of a number of the firm's staff and ultimately saw the firing of its then CEO Philip Purcell three months later.

He then recruited Charles McCall ( who followed Jeff Wilkins as CEO, and later became CEO of HBOC ), Maury Cox ( who became CEO after the departure of McCall ), and Robert Massey ( who was the last CEO of CompuServe ).