Executive -- from execute (to carry out, to perform, to do) -- formerly meant someone who put things into action. But now, executives don't do anything; its all done with committees and focus groups.... (How many so-called executives in recent memory have claimed no responsibility, from Regan with Iran-Contra all the way to Kenneth Lay with Enron, and on and on......

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