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SLEAZY AGENTS The NCAA attacks quick-buck pro contracts by proposing loans and jobs for student athletes...
Just ask disappointed executives of American Pad & Paper, a $275 million maker of office supplies in Dallas that went public earlier this month at an initial price of $15 per share. Investors hoped to make a quick buck on this well-established company. But instead of taking off, the stock sputtered 13 cents higher during its first day of trading before settling back to its opening price. It closed last week at $14 per share...
...answer may have a lot to do with staffing changes within the agency. While Hinson receives plaudits for trying to buck the bureaucracy--for instance, by pushing last year to regulate commuter airlines in the same way as larger commercial airlines--reviews are mixed about Pena, who has been criticized for putting politics over safety, and about Broderick. In his nearly 20 years at the FAA, Broderick was a tough, respected administrator, and his supporters believe he is being sacrificed on the altar of public relations. But others claim that he could be unyielding and slow to acknowledge problems...
...Avenue," says John Sykes, president of the music video network vh1 and a friend of Tigrett's. "He is building a quality brand--you come and hear the blues, buy a burger and a T shirt on the way out. That's pure Isaac. He's not a quick-buck guy. He thinks long-term, and he puts together very solid franchises...
Americans with experience in China assume the national leaders do know what kinds of sales are being made even if they are not aware of the details of each transaction. "China is chasing bucks," says John Frankenstein, a former U.S. diplomat teaching at the University of Hong Kong, "and people will do anything to make a buck. It's all about that anything-goes mentality that exists in China...