71.   There is no evidence that senior executives take part in such revelry.

72.   These are nasty contests, the sort that corporate executives take personally, especially when they lose.

73.   They are also investigating whether Hanac executives took advantage of personal or political ties with mayoral aides to help obtain the contracts.

74.   They need to show that the proxy documents did not contain caveats allowing German executives to take complete control of the combined business.

75.   This story gives specific steps ambitious executives can take to improve their chances.

76.   To be fair, some executives did take hits.

77.   To make room for them, three executives are taking new jobs elsewhere in the firm.

78.   Top executives now took his advice and made a first tentative approach to Intel about working on a shared chip design.

79.   Wall Street executives are taking home bigger paychecks amid record profits fueled by surging stock and bond underwriting and mergers and acquisitions.

80.   When the outbreak began, Coke executives took several days to make the matter a high priority.