Posted on 08/08/2002 9:25:50 PM PDT by Pokey78
Three years ago, the CEO of Amazon was Time's Person of the Year. Bill Gates was God. Venture capitalists and dot-com entrepreneurs were American heroes. That was when the market was up.
Today the market is down, and CEOs are bums. So the cry has gone up, "Hey, wasn't Dick Cheney a CEO?"
The vice president was indeed CEO of Halliburton, an oil services company. As the Enron, WorldCom and other scandals unfold, his tenure has come under attack. Why?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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