The airport anger was in some cases shared by American employees.

On board with him were nearly 120 other American employees.

As for management technique, the company forbade its American employees to relay any bad news.

But in a survey conducted a few years ago, about 45 percent of American employees said they would change jobs if they could.

The moderate role f personal control for American and French employees.

Estimates put the total number of American employees holding them at roughly 10 million.

A spokesman in Washington said all American employees had been accounted for.

American employees have always been more willing than Europeans to move a few thousand miles to follow a job, or take a better one.

The typical American employee is away for two or three years.

He said the announcement would also serve as a "morale boost" to American employees.