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...shareholder base that won't sell if earnings fall short and sides with management on tough issues like a takeover. That's why in most cases you can't sell shares given as a match until age 55. "It confounds me why this issue is not on the front burner," says Mike Scarborough, CEO of Scarborough Group, which advises 401(k) participants...
...final-status peace agreement that Labor had insisted, during the election campaign, was only a matter of weeks away is now on the back burner, and the new government's priority in negotiations with the Palestinians will be to achieve interim non-belligerency agreements - cease-fires, in a sense, rather than a peace treaty. For Barak to accept such dramatically truncated peace goals is a significant retreat, but then, having lost the election by 25 points, he has little room for maneuver. And besides, most commentators agree that the "imminent" final status agreement was always something of a myth...
TRIPLE PLAY Most CD burners have looked about as cool as a pocket protector. That is until Sony unveiled its Digital Relay portable CD burner ($400) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. It works like any other CD burner: hook it up to a PC, and you can back up your hard drive, store digital images or burn MP3s onto a blank CD. When you're ready to roll, it turns into a portable CD player for store-bought CDs or the custom-made ones you burned yourself. You won't have to be embarrassed...
...what it wants worst: social conservatives at key social-policy posts like AG and HHS. And if Bush wants to keep Americans and the media focused on other things - education, Medicare, tax cuts, the agenda of the possible - he'll have to keep Roe v. Wade on the back burner, and the best way to do that is to keep the Bible-thumpers happy...
...already-won strategy. Only one item was tossed out--the transition posturing that gave rise to that West Wing-style photo op with Bush and his Cabinet-in-waiting. The Florida battle is so all-consuming that his top people have had to put governance on the back burner; first they have to win. "Right now we're spending every minute managing this," says Hughes...