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...owners began pleading that they could not afford the salary race. Forecasting losses of $90 million a year by 1988 and warning that major-league baseball was in jeopardy, they demanded that the players follow the example of the once fiscally battered National Basketball Association and establish a cap on salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Win for the Fans | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Only when the players walked out did both sides compromise. The players agreed to raise the eligibility requirement for arbitration for new players from two to three years. The owners, for their part, agreed to drop the salary-cap proposal. On the owners' contribution to the players' pension fund, the two sides compromised at an average of $32.6 million a year for the next five years. The early reading was that the players on balance had prevailed, though in fact they mostly held on to earlier gains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: A Win for the Fans | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...most voguish are Indian mid-cap funds, which bet on riskier companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Returns like those make life worth living, but gravity has a way of bringing things back to earth. When I met him in Bombay, Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities, seemed pleased but perplexed by the performance of his team's fledgling mid-cap fund, targeted at foreigners willing to pony up $100,000. Six months after its launch last August, he marveled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: India Bubble? | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...course CEOs rake in the dough. But a study says the beefier paychecks can't be explained by increases in their companies' market cap or anything else. In other words, the bosses didn't earn those hikes. The study--done by two professors, one from Harvard law, the other from Cornell's business school--found that among S&P 500 companies, the compensation of CEOs soared 146%, on average, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why CEOs Haven't Earned Their Pay | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

...other sources, and most simply shrug. Today I could see why. He was ambling alone toward a gate guarded by a pair of Swiss Guards. He too was without the Cardinal colors, wearing a short black overcoat over his black suit and clerical collar, with a peaked black woolen cap: looking more like the stooped village pastor in Bernanos' 'Diary of A Country Priest' than a man set to help choose the next pope. My colleague Jordan Bonfante approached him, and asked how he felt this impending conclave compares with the last two. "In 1978," he said, "I was just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Diary: A New Papacy Begins | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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