On April 17, 1999, just nine days after Compaq reported first-quarter profit being at half of what analysts had expected, the latest in a string of earnings disappointments, Pfeiffer was forced to resign as CEO in a coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen.

On 19 June 2006 the International Herald Tribune reported that Michael Howard would become chairman of Diligence Europe, a private intelligence and risk assessment company founded by former CIA and MI5 members.

" In a separate development the chairman of the SFLC, Eben Moglen, reported that Novell had offered cooperation with the SFLC to permit a confidential audit to determine the compliance of the agreement with the GPL ( version 2 ).

The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November 1963, and referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W. Smith, a Democrat and avid segregationist from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely.

King World chairman Roger King was reported in the New York Daily News as being embarrassed by the show's ratings and derision of being a ' bad Regis and Kelly clone ', and told the staff this upon the show's cancellation announcement, refusing to congratulate them on a good run.

After being reported to the police for an alleged sexual assault, he chose 18th January 2008 to resign from the post of chairman of the parliament.

Elektra responded by counter-suing the group, but in December New York magazine reported rumours that then Warner Music US chairman Doug Morris had offered the group a lucrative new deal in exchange for dropping the suit which was reported to be even more generous than the earlier Krasnow deal.

In March 2004, another New York Times article reported that, while chairman of the Defense Policy Board, Perle had contracted with the troubled telecommunications giant Global Crossing to help overcome opposition from the FBI and the Pentagon to the sale of its assets to Hong-Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa.

This later became a topic of controversy when the news media in Madrid reported that the name of long-time Real Madrid chairman and Franco supporter, Santiago Bernabéu, had been commemorated in this way.

It was reported that Rediffusion's chairman Sir John Spencer Wills felt the ITA owed his company a ' debt of gratitude ' for this, a comment which particularly annoyed the Authority.

In 1982, MacBride was chairman of the International Commission to enquire into reported violations of International Law by Israel during its invasion of the Lebanon.

The chairman reported to the shareholders at their Annual General Meeting in November 1933 " The Daimler Fluid Flywheel Transmission now has three years of success behind it and more than 11, 000 vehicles, ranging from 10 h. p.

On 25 June, it was reported that several clubs were hoping to lure Kewell to Australia and Adelaide United chairman Greg Griffin said that his club would not stand in the FFA's way if a deal-even with fierce rival Melbourne Victory-required an " additional kick ".

At the annual statement to shareholders for 1967, BMH chairman Sir George Harriman reported that the company had manufactured 313, 790 vehicles, including 72, 049 manufactured overseas.

In January, 2012, it was reported that Blocher had received information from an unnamed whistleblower regarding foreign exchange trades at Bank Sarasin made by Swiss National Bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand's wife Kashya.

On May 14, 2006, the New York Times reported that Rogers had used his legislative position as chairman of the House subcommittee that controls the Homeland Security budget to create " jobs in his home district and profits for companies that are donors to his political causes.

In 2003, the chairman of the London Ambulance Service, Sigurd Reinton was reported as claiming that delay due to speed bumps was responsible for up to 500 avoidable deaths from cardiac arrest each year.

His successor Sanjay Kumar resigned as chairman and chief executive in April 2004, following an investigation into the accounting scandal which improperly reported revenue.

The whole higher level administration reported only to Ebert, although Haase formally was a chairman in the Council with equal rights.

The article also refers to an unnamed " chairman " ( who presumably presided over the ceremony ), but this supposed event was not reported by a source other than KCNA as of the date of the article ( eight days after the ceremony was alleged to have occurred ).

It has been reported that while George's mother Mari Hulman George ( who is also chairman of the board ) supported him, his sisters ( who are the other directors ) wanted him forced out.

South Orange reported poor ticket sales, and the local alumni chairman was concerned with keeping down the cost of stagehands ; in Pittsburgh, a poor house and lack of entertainment were attributed to the weak stock market.

Lord Napier was the chairman of the Napier Commission ( the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Condition of Crofters and Cottars in the Highlands and Islands ) which was appointed in 1883 and reported in 1884.

On 21 November 2008 it was reported that a charge had been dropped against former HIH chairman Geoffrey Cohen a week before it was due to be heard in Sydney ' Downing Centre Local Court.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

A few days later Rupert Murdoch, chairman of studio 20th Century Fox ( who backed the film ) dismissed A Good Year as " a flop " at a shareholders ' meeting.

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.

Scandals involving the directors, shareholders and others emerged in 2005 – 06 season and included allegations of blackmail and threats of violence against the club's chairman Gianni Paladini.

Eddington replaced Robert Ayling, involved in the dirty tricks affair, who was dismissed by Lord Marshall, the long-serving BA chairman and Ayling's mentor, on behalf of BA's main institutional shareholders after BA had its first net loss since privatisation during Ayling's time during its 1999 / 2000 financial year.

Granada owned 68 % of the shares and Carlton 32 %; chairman designate Michael Green was ousted by shareholders and the majority of new board members originated from Granada.

Responding to the news, Chris Gibson-Smith, the LSE's chairman, said: " The Exchange ’ s strategy has produced outstanding results for shareholders by facilitating a structural shift in volume growth in an increasingly international market at the centre of the world ’ s equity flows.

In January 1990, Cathay Pacific, Swire Group and CITIC Pacific acquired an 89 percent stake in the airline, with CITIC Pacific holding 38 percent ; while the family of the airline's chairman Kuang-Piu Chao reduced their holding from 22 percent to 6 percent, with the remainder held by minor shareholders.

* January 16, 1997: Primark Corporation, headed by chairman and CEO Joseph E. Kasputys, announced it entered into an agreement to acquire WEFA Holdings Inc. from Bain Capital Inc. and other shareholders in a USD 45 million cash transaction.

In December 1928 the chairman of Rover advised shareholders that the accumulation of the substantial losses of the 1923-1928 years together with the costs of that year's reorganisation must be recognised by a reduction of 60 % in the value of capital of the company.

According to a 1960 promotional EP designed and distributed by Liberty Records for Liberty shareholders, David Seville ( of Chipmunks fame ), a composer / producer on Liberty, told Julie London that the term " exotica " was coined by Simon " Si " Waronker, Liberty Records co-founder and, at the time, board chairman.

TCI asked the chairman to put their request on the agenda of the annual shareholders ' meeting of April 2007.

In 2010, a proxy contest broke out in advance of the impending shareholders ' meeting over whether board member Klaus Wucherer would be allowed to step into the chairman's office upon the retirement of the then-current chairman Max Dietrich Kley.

On 16 August 2001 chairman Peter Ridsdale sent a letter to season ticket holders and shareholders regarding the future of the club outlining two options, to improve Elland Road or to relocate.

Haszard and other investors kept the company afloat while it was reorganised, and he stepped in when the previous chairman lost the confidence of shareholders.

At a shareholders ' meeting on 11 November 1897, the chairman stated:.

Its chairman was Harry Warner of Warner Brothers, and its 600 shareholders included many other Hollywood luminaries, including another Brother brand, Jack Warner.

In spite of these criticisms the shareholders stuck with their chairman, until they eventually realised that their own interests were suffering as well.

At the meeting in Utrecht, attended by well over a thousand shareholders representing slightly over 20 % of the capital, the proposal to appoint Davignon as chairman of the Supervisory Board just scraped by ( 50, 6 %).

In 2001, Eli Lilly's chairman, president and CEO, Sidney Taurel, told shareholders: " No medicine better symbolizes our mission than Xigris ," calling it " one of our industry's genuine breakthroughs.

At a shareholders meeting for International Projects, a billion dollar corporation, John T. Blessington ( John Williams ) announces that he is replacing Edward L. McKeever ( Paul Douglas ), the company's founder, president and chairman of the board, as McKeever is resigning to go work for the federal government in Washington DC.

Finally, in September, its shareholders overruled their chairman and the triple merger was agreed.