Skilling
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- proper noun
- I would also point out to Mr. Kessler that Mr. Jeff Skilling adopted a variant of this approach in his criminal defense, as have many others, arguing that as CEO he really wasn't responsible for the actions of his underlings.
- Jeffrey Skilling
- Skilling joined Enron
- CEO Skilling
Examples
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I believe that Mr. Skilling is a long-term (24 years) guest of the Federal penal system.
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Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and Thomas White—
Academic text (2002) -
Four or five years later, Jeff Skilling was still trying to get me to take the story back.
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Enron's Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and Andrew Fastow sure are proof of that, as is Bernie Madoff.
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Toni, the funny thing about Enron is that many Houstonians saw that the emperor had no clothes early on, but Skilling, Fastow, and company did a fantastic job of fooling Wall Street (and believing their own hype to a certain extent).
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Jeffrey Skilling was a controversial figure during the rise and fall of the Enron Corporation.
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The documentary highlighted the role of Skilling in shaping Enron's corporate culture.
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Many debates continue over Skilling's leadership decisions at Enron leading up to its bankruptcy.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Skilling is a family name, best known from Jeffrey Skilling of the Enron case. A helpful way to remember it is to link it to the word skill ('ability'), because the surname may come from someone with a trade or from an old small coin called a skilling, so you can recall the name by thinking of 'skill'.