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...main goal is to find people who will help make the organization independent of AAA, who currently funds the burgeoning theater group. Wong has plans for 10-minute, one act plays in various venues on campus, such as the University houses, that will serve as initial springboards for bigger productions. Future goals include inviting established artists and professionals to lead acting workshops, and present educational talks, lectures and panels.While the AAA Players’ initiative to include inexperienced actors may raise questions about the stability of the organization or the caliber of its productions, Wong feels that opening theater...
Companies that want to get bigger or round out their portfolios of businesses have probably been on the phone with their investment bankers in the last two weeks. It may be the first time that some bankers have gotten a client call in a year. There is a rush to look at targets now, because if the market moves up another 10% or 15%, a lot of companies that were cheap will get expensive...
Coordinate spending programs. Instead of playing the my-Keynesian-deficit-spending-plan-is-bigger-than-yours game, leaders should coordinate specific measures in order to get more bang for their bucks. It's counterproductive and potentially anticompetitive for some nations to rescue their auto industries, for example, while others don't. Far better to agree on ground rules governing which industries are entitled to receive state aid and how it should be given...
That is outrageous. But it's not any more outrageous than the even bigger bonuses paid out in past years to the masterminds of the AIG FP mess who no longer happen to work there. Slightly less so, in fact: the remaining AIG FP employees are being paid essentially to work themselves out of jobs by winding down all the unit's contracts. It's an awkward situation that means at least some of them probably would have gotten retention pay even in bankruptcy...
...while our government can provide every opportunity imaginable for us to serve our communities, it is up to each of us to seize those opportunities. To do our part to lift up our fellow Americans. To realize our own true potential by hitching our wagon to something bigger than ourselves...