Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...considering that only three players on this year's team have been playing polo for more than two years, a youthful team now will be an asset to the future...
...network is being eyed for sale. Staffing and salaries have been slashed. Morale is low when it's not obstreperous. The chief corporate asset, credibility, has been squandered in a humiliating succession of errors and ethical slips. On top of all else, three of the past four occupants of the job have been shown the door. Is it any wonder that NBC News seems to be having trouble finding a president...
...long run, however, this scramble to shed full-time staff may be as harmful to American industry as it is to the American work force -- since a well-trained work force is the greatest asset of a nation's industries. Analysts, including Labor Secretary Reich, have pointed out that in a borderless world, capital and production are portable; thus, the key resources of companies as well as nations are the skills and ideas of its people. The reduction in corporate programs for training and developing employees -- one of the long-term effects of the temping of America -- leads...
...Certain amounts earned under this plan are deferred from payment in the year earned and are subject to drawback, based on the relative return of the asset pool in the subsequent year," according to the documents...
Meyer also changed the standard against which the company measures its performance from a conventional "vanilla portfolio" of stocks and bonds to a new system of internal benchmarks based on the estimated performance of HMC"s asset allocation schedule...