POWER 25

17 who fell off the list

Power is hard to get - and tough to hang on to. More than half of the CEOs who made the top 25 in 2003 did not make the cut this year.
Stan O'Neal
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Stan O'Neal
2003 rank: 20
Company: Merrill Lynch
High-profile casualty of the subprime mess.

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