He was also a corporate manager for two regional hospital systems.

He was, and is, a corporate manager; they lived well.

Most corporate managers are used to taking courses and reading books on how to get ahead.

Still, corporate managers say they are moving much more cautiously than in the past.

And dealers question whether corporate managers will be able to provide personal service.

More significantly, they may be a way for some corporate managers to think, once again, of themselves first and their owners second.

Some corporate managers would like to eliminate jobs but nobody wants to be the first.

"And it is driving corporate managers to make their numbers so the compensation gets even larger."

But history has shown that the judgment of both financial markets and corporate managers can be wrong.

The Bush Administration's policy was to go easy on the corporate managers.