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Paying By The Rules The movement to clean up bad corporate behavior in the U.S. has finally run into a business backlash. The chief target of corporate ire is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law passed in 2002 that imposed tough new rules for how public companies - including many European ones - report their numbers. New provisions of the law continue to kick in, which might explain some curiously timed events. (Does the outgoing CFO of Linux peddler Red Hat really want to spend more time with his family?) Partly because of the stringent law, fewer foreign firms are listing shares...
...approximately 70,000 Muslims living in Japan, the widening probe is worrying for a different reason. At the Medina masjid one town over from Nishi-Kawaguchi, mosque chairman Raees Siddiqui, a 53-year-old Pakistani, is happy to chat about a possible backlash against Muslims due to the arrests, but he only has a few minutes: the 30-year resident of Japan, who runs a million-dollar used-car export business, says he has to be at the police station soon. No, he's not wanted for anything, or even questioning, he replies, simultaneously offended and amused at the suggestion...
...growing backlash against outsourcing isn't discouraging the practice. In fact, worries about companies exporting jobs, says the report's author, John McCarthy, have actually proved "a little self-fulfilling." Media attention, he explains, may have put some companies on the defensive about their plans to hire programmers in Bangalore rather than Boston, but their executives have learned that competitors have offshore strategies in the works and decided they will have to follow suit to remain competitive. Companies are still under pressure to cut costs in areas like information technology. So the tech sector will be hit hardest...
...Gross] were to take that straight to [Faculty] legislation, there would be a little bit of a backlash,” Mahan said. “To some extent I would say this is a lesson learned from preregistration...
...ecstatic," Carter noted recently in the Newsletter of the Federal Courts. "Thurgood and many others thought that, with the Brown decision, the civil rights fight was over. I didn't share that view. I was pretty sure there would be a whole lot of work handling the backlash...