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...us well. " Whitacre, the former chairman and CEO of AT&T, was handpicked this summer by the Obama administration's auto task force to help lead GM back to profitability after the automaker posted $88 billion in losses since 2004. He said...

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...$88 billion in losses since 2004. The Obama administration named Whitacre, the former CEO and chairman of AT&T Inc., to lead the board after a U.S. bailout gave the government a 61 percent ownership stake. "We have some momentum now;...

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...Chairman of the Board after General Motors exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The retired leader of telecommunications giant AT&T called turning GM around a "public service." Whitacre's new job also comes with a high profile public image. Since...

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...it to succeed badly. And they know it starts as being responsive as possible to customer demand," Whitacre told an audience last week at Texas Lutheran University, where he briefly taught following his AT&T retirement. Whitacre as chairman...

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...is coming under intense public pressure from his new boss, chairman Ed Whitacre. Mr Whitacre, a telecoms industry veteran who turned AT&T into the largest carrier in the US, was lured out of retirement to head GM, and his public remarks are...

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...business: how to talk and walk for a TV camera. Whitacre, who shunned the spotlight when he ran AT&T, says he was reluctant to appear in the commercial and called the experience nerve-racking. And when he saw the finished product, he was none...

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...enough that we rexamined that." Whitacre, who is the former CEO and chairman of telecommunications giant AT&T, said he did not initially want to lead GM when he was approached with the offer. "I was retired. Why would I want to do...

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