Word: acceptably
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...Securities and Exchange Commission five years ago to block a requirement that 75% of mutual funds' boards be independent. And another legal battle seems likely to be brewing over the new SEC Commissioner's interest in pushing to allow shareholders to nominate independent members to corporate boards. "They will accept all kinds of stimulus funds and bailouts but God forbid we should ask for any kind of accountability in return," says Nell Minow, co-founder of Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm...
...been busy. On Wednesday, Geithner and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel met with House Democrats on the Financial Services Committee, pushing them to accept the deal Geithner had negotiated with committee chairman Barney Frank, which includes new powers for regulators and the Federal Reserve to limit risk among the nation's biggest financial institutions, and to dissolve those institutions in an orderly way if they fail. At the same time, the Senate is moving ahead with its own bill, with talk of a markup in Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd's Banking Committee before Thanksgiving. Treasury has even held...
...with their failures, they cope in frustratingly deadpan ways, lending the narrative a puzzling emotional flatness. Tony Gardner explains the seemingly tragic dissolution of his marriage to Lindy in sterile, practical terms, saying, “I’m no longer a major name. Now I could just accept that and fade away. Live on past glories. Or I could say, no, I’m not finished yet.… You have to be prepared to make a lot of changes, some of them hard ones. You change the way you are. You even change some things...
Maislinger is visiting the United States this week to accept the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust Lifetime Achievement Award, along with Branko Lustig, the Academy Award winning producer of “Schindler’s List...
Iran announced on Thursday that it had delivered its response on a proposed nuclear deal to the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. It appeared to signal that its answer - not yet made public - is to accept the framework of the agreement to reprocess some of its enriched uranium abroad to create fuel for a medical research reactor but at the same time demand important changes to the deal. As Tehran has kept the world waiting over the past week, conventional wisdom has held that Iran is playing for time, testing the limits of international political resolve, and hamstrung...