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If the kid you couldn’t stand in high school is now a captain of industry, you must be enjoying the current turn in public opinion. Today, corporate CEOs are assumed to be guilty until proven innocent. Even those who seem not to be crooks are derided for being wildly overpaid. Granted, Americans like to bad-mouth corporate moguls even in the best of times, but they do so with added zest nowadays. One gets a sense of this from the chart, which draws on a poll fielded by Ipsos-Reid for BusinessWeek.

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