With no debate or even warning, chief executives repeatedly ordered military action.
Industry insiders said that the release delay was because nervous executives ordered the film's ending completely re-shot.
Unfortunately, the executives didn't like the design and ordered for the car (and the concept) to be sent to the scrapheap and destroyed.
A third former executive, Mark Whitacre, was sentenced to two and a half years, but not ordered to pay a fine.
Then the chief executive ordered a house-cleaning in the stores she kept, sweeping away messy racks and introducing dozens of new brands.
Its executives, Federal investigators say, organized the meetings, coordinated the price-fixing and ordered documents destroyed.
This was the first time a chief executive had ordered so large a shutdown of Federal operations.
After about five hours, a flight attendant announced that "an American executive" had ordered pizzas to be delivered from the airport.
The executive ordered the plate from the academy, and Mr. Evans paid up.
Four months ago, Goodyear executives ordered the commercials off the air.