21.   Only a year ago, Nasser was considered a hard charging, innovative executive who styled himself after Jack Welch Jr., the recently retired chairman of General Electric.

22.   Other investors included the Tisch family of New York and Lodwrick Cook, the retired chairman of ARCO and a big Republican Party fund-raiser.

23.   Powell, a retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, plans to announce in the next several weeks whether he plans to run.

24.   Powell, a retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has not declared his candidacy but is expected to do so sometime in November.

25.   Predictably, personal ambition and politics are intruding on the uncritical idyll the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff enjoyed during his phenomenal book tour.

26.   Stan Andersen is retired chairman of the Humanities Department at San Francisco State University.

27.   The group will be led by Adm. William Crowe, the retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former ambassador to Britain.

28.   The retired chairman of Atlanta Life Insurance Co. is suing the company for failing to pay him part of his retirement package.

29.   The retired chairman of Monsanto Co. said in an interview that corporate leaders have discussed the possibility of unilaterally ending their enormous soft money contributions to political parties.

30.   There is also a video that includes a delightful interview with retired chairman of the board Whidden Ganong, known as the Candy Man.