executive
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Prior to BDG, Emma served as the executive editor of Elle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
In Kings County, the project potentially could benefit the fairgrounds as a long-term revenue source, said Dena Rizzardo, chief executive of the fair board, a state entity that would have final say over any proposal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Samuel Guiberteau, a Danone executive on a business trip to Lombok since Friday, said by phone "nothing is certain for the moment", as he searched for alternative flights back to the capital.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Former airline executive Andrew Charlton, who manages the Swiss-based consultancy Aviation Advocacy, thinks the risk is low.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
This was his fifth executive assistant since Mrs. Halliday had retired.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
Work began on the proposal last November and maps the country into east and west, with the chief executives of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lothian taking the lead.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
She was never above criticism; financial television has long been too cozy with the executives it covers and too allergic to the kind of confrontational reporting that treats CEOs as accountable public actors.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Yet executives repeatedly urged Aardman to give him a voice.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
U.S. oil-and-gas executives have been warning for months that the country risked wrestling with higher fuel prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
According to Jamie Lincoln Kitman, writing in The Nation in 2000, Ethyl executives allegedly offered to endow a chair at Caltech "if Patterson was sent packing."
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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