Posted on 10/18/2008 7:24:10 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
She swilled vodka and visited strip joints to break the glass ceiling, but can businesswoman Carly Fiorina tough it out in politics, asks Nick Mathiason. Poised, smart and ready to serve, Carly Fiorina - at one time the most powerful female executive on the planet - scents power. There's still a chance that the most intense, volatile and bitter presidential election campaign in living memory could spring a stunning final twist, delivering the Republicans to victory. If John McCain triumphs, Fiorina will follow in his slipstream. As a close friend and economic adviser to the Republican candidate, it is a sure bet that the first and only woman to run a Fortune top 20 company will be catapulted into office. 'We'll see,' the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard said last Friday at her Washington home. 'We never expect anything.' With Fiorina, though, expectations are generally pretty high. The daughter of a law school professor from Austin, Texas, she is a fiercely ambitious corporate ball breaker.
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Sen. Friedrich Engels of Nebraska as U.S. Ambassador to Israel
“Yep... one helluva job! BTW, how is Lucent doin’ today?”
Lucent’s stock value (and their earnings) were outstanding when she was there. Blaming her for Lucent’s fall years after she left is a bit silly. Why not blame Chrysler’s problems on Lee Iaccoca while you’re at it?
Governor Palin's name has an "h". The SARA, also called the SuperChip, is a 128 byte RAM chip which was used in some of the later Atari cartridges for the Atari 2600 Video Computer System (doubling the RAM made possible such games as Millipede, Dig Dug, Solaris, etc.). I do not know if it's an acronym (something-something-RAM-something?) but my immediate thought when I saw the title is that if Gov. Palin was the "Super-Chip" that would be a neat coincidence. Well, it seems she's not, but I was curious if I'm the only guy here who would even think of such an esoteric reference.
She already trashed out two (three if you count Compaq and Hewlitt as two).
How many chances does she get?
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