Word: barings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Central to his argument was a call for strong ethics. “To me, integrity is the single most important quality you need as a leader,” he said onstage. “Integrity means more than telling the truth. That’s just the bare minimum. To me, integrity means never putting your goals ahead of your values.”The American Express CEO reminded his audience of soon-to-be alums that the key to leadership is “followership.” Businesses have a responsibility to serve the public, according...
...people who run the world's most glamorous convention have a funny way of marking its 60th birthday. The huge lobbies of Festival Palace, its main meeting venue, are usually bedecked with gigantic photos of its great and good. But they are bare this year, as if hitting 60 were something to hide, not trumpet. It's either a false modesty or a decorative oversight, for Cannes has not forgotten how to promote itself. The celebrity quotient is high-Leo and Matt, George Clooney and Brangelina-and this Riviera redoubt is also crawling with esteemed auteurs, including a couple dozen...
More daylight Maintain the reporting requirements of NCLB but encourage states to provide a fuller picture of school quality than the bare bones of AYP. Congress should offer incentives--carrots, not sticks--for school districts to provide more information to their communities, including high school graduation rates, measures of student growth, participation in gifted and talented programs and achievement in the arts...
...student if he'd applied himself." With eight years in the Senate, his legislative record was thin. Says a former adviser: "While the Senate is filled with ambitious men who aren't in a rush to get home at night, Senator Thompson kept a lean formal schedule, did the bare minimum to get by and then hightailed [it] to the Prime Rib or the Capital Grille...
...Brown's case laid bare the strange state of limbo in Illinois' criminal justice system. Though Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich has continued the landmark moratorium on carrying out executions imposed in 2000 by his Republican predecessor George Ryan, 11 men have been sent to death row since Ryan cleared it out as he left office in 2003 - and prosecutors in the state still plan to seek the ultimate punishment when they feel it fits the crime...