81.   Harrison may not be the most charismatic leader, friends and associates said, but few other executives have his experience in overseeing complicated mergers.

82.   Has any NFL executive had a worse year than St. Louis Rams General Manager Steve Ortmayer?

83.   He also said the executives have a large number of options, or rights to purchase additional Avid shares.

84.   He noted that the Enron executives once had financial and political ties to President Bush and members of his administration.

85.   He countered that the tobacco company executives have no credibility and have repeatedly lied to Congress.

86.   He has warned that executives have a matter of months, not years, to make their case with investors.

87.   He suggested that biotech executives had to get politically active on issues like patent protection that are so important to their future.

88.   He said the new management team will move more decisions from Atlanta to local operations around the world, where executives have more firsthand knowledge of conditions.

89.   I just live in this ideal world where I believe executives of public companies have a responsibility to respond to questions.

90.   If recording executives have an image problem now, analysts and industry experts say they have only themselves to blame.