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...watch. Why should they? Let's be honest - this shindig is all about the parties and perks. The only scores that matter is the Scores with topless dancers and cocktails not far from Ford Field. But this year corporate card-carrying spendthrifts had better be careful. The expense-account cops are out in force - or so we?re told - and business entertaining, and perks generally, have rarely been under greater scrutiny...
...Such shockingly careful behavior is almost certainly a backlash to the shockingly egregious instances of expense-account excess that have come to light in recent years. In one case, brokers hoping to win more business from Fidelity Investments treated one of the firm?s traders to a lavish bachelor party, including private jet travel, female companionship and, yes, dwarf tossing, not necessarily in that order. The hosts expensed it. Last year, the CEO of Savvis Communications resigned in the wake of a $241,000 charge to his corporate card during an evening with business associates at a strip club...
...expire in the coming years-as essential to the American economy. He?ll also tout health care reform-especially the idea, endorsed by politicians from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Newt Gingrich, to use technology to lower health care costs-but avoid getting mired in details like expanding Health Savings Accounts, which Bush has been talking up in recent days. These accounts, established in 2003, allow Americans to save for health care expenses in a tax free account so long as they buy a catastrophic insurance policy with a high deductible. "I'm going to remind people we're living...
...Boring (But Clean) The Federal Accountability Act is item No. 1 on the Tories' list of campaign priorities. The long-mooted set of initiatives, which includes stringent controls over lobbying and government appointments and stricter limits on campaign contributions, could be tabled fairly quickly in the new House of Commons, which may begin sitting in mid-March. Given the lingering anger over the sponsorship scandal, says former Reform Party leader Preston Manning, "I can't see anybody in that Parliament voting against that in principle." The bill's final form, though, will have to take into account the recommendations...
...statistics. The upshot was a 16.8% increase in gross domestic product that pushed China's economy past France's into fifth place worldwide - just behind the U.S., Japan, Germany and Britain. Zhu said that the new number is a better reflection of reality, but still doesn't take into account small private companies and service firms, including retailers, with fewer than 60 employees. As a result, "Chinese gdp is still underestimated. There's still 15-20% to go," he said. That's good news for the rest of Asia too, as China's growth boosts the whole region. Frenkel pointed...