Word: boardrooms
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...economy are in intensive care. We talk about the need to balance freedom and security, but both have shriveled in the heat of the threat. There seemed to be a spirit of infectious virtue everywhere we turned a year ago; we have since looked from the pulpit to the boardroom to the baseball diamond and wondered if there was an honest man anywhere in sight...
...stern Bush looks when he declares that bad guys should go to jail, he has not erased charges that as an oilman in the '80s, he profited from the same kind of sweetheart deals he now decries. Public opinion is focused not on the Beltway but on the boardroom, and the President's career, lineage and aspect all put him in one of the fancy leather swivel chairs. "CEO," an adviser warned the President, "has become a dirty word...
Person of the Week CALLED TO ACCOUNT One day after his boss promised a crackdown on boardroom criminals, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney was sued for accounting fraud, which allegedly occurred during his tenure as chairman and chief executive of Halliburton, an oil services company...
...stern Bush looks when he declares that bad guys should go to jail, he has not erased charges that as an oilman in the '80s, he profited from the same kind of sweetheart deals he now decries. Public opinion is focused not on the Beltway but on the boardroom, and the President's career, lineage and aspect all put him in one of the fancy leather swivel chairs. "CEO," an adviser warned the President, "has become a dirty word...
...drumbeat of news about sleazy boardroom behavior has given investors someone to blame--fairly or not--for the money they have lost in stocks over the past two years. Seizing the moment, politicians are undertaking what could be the most sweeping structural reforms in the business world since the 1930s. The N.Y.S.E. has proposed stiff new rules for boards of directors, and the SEC has proposed changes in accounting and auditing procedures. The SEC has already imposed new rules to stamp out conflicts of interest among stock analysts...