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...vetting companies is hardly traditional. To float on the LSE's main market, a company normally needs a three-year business record, a minimum market cap and shareholder approval for big acquisitions or disposals; NASDAQ and NYSE have similar hurdles. But AIM's quality control is outsourced to 85 so-called Nominated Advisers, or Nomads. Generally accounting firms or financial management companies, Nomads scrutinize a firm's executive staff, business model and performance before deciding whether it can list. To a degree, NYSE's Thain is right: AIM has very few prescriptive requirements for listing - the Nomad's own judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sharp AIM | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...kernels of corn. DuPont hopes to more than double its revenue from nondepletable resources, to $8 billion by 2015. The company has also cut its greenhouse-gas emissions 72% since 1990 and is aiming for more. That puts DuPont in position to respond nimbly if Washington eventually acts to cap carbon. "We learned that we have to be ahead of legislation," says Linda Fisher, DuPont's chief sustainability officer, a title of growing significance in corporate America. "That is truer today than it was 20 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now For Our Feverish Planet? | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...bill was soundly defeated that year and in 2005 suffered an even worse Senate smackdown, 60 to 38. With a new Congress in place, McCain and Lieberman will try again. This time they will face competition from Senators Jeff Bingaman and Arlen Specter, whose version would set higher caps and more gradual reductions. "The McCain-Lieberman proposal was very credible," Bingaman says. "[But] this draft has more prospect of actually being adopted." Yet another cap-and-trade bill will probably come out of Boxer's committee, and more bills still will be considered in the House of Representatives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Now For Our Feverish Planet? | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

...minutes later, John McCarley, a weather-beaten cattleman with a deep drawl and a faded Yankees cap, echoed that analysis. "We're in an era where we need leadership," he said. "There will be social issues where we disagree, but ... we won't have a litmus test. He transcends that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is Rudy Smiling? | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...communication, and feedback mechanisms that have fundamentally transformed the nature of battlefield command—certainly since the penning of the Constitution. More specifically, on the issue of President Bush’s order for a surge in troops, Barron thought Congress would be well within its limits to cap the number of non-deployed soldiers Bush could add to the field of combat. Feldman disagreed, again pointing to the expanded scope of modern war. “The realities of contemporary warfare involve the regular shuttling in and out of troops during the battle as part of both...

Author: By Raviv Murciano-goroff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Profs Debate Executive Power | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

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