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...case, warnings had been sounded for some time, including from inside the company. In an internal memo published in Australia's Fairfax newspapers in August, a disgruntled executive complained of a "culture of greed." In other companies, he wrote, "acquired projects are actually required to generate a certain benchmark return before bonus payouts take place. Instead, we have created an environment where senior people are rewarded for ... ginning up rosy projections to justify their rewards...
...title of his 2006 album] Hip Hop Is Dead. There was just a lack of creativity, a lack of fresh energy in the music. When people don't stretch and expand and try different things, music gets boring. That's what hip-hop was suffering from--a bad case of monotony...
That a loss of four seats is now considered the GOP's best-case scenario tells you how dramatically the party's fortunes have changed. But the real question is whether Democrats can pick up the nine seats they need to grab a 60-vote, filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. At this point, the answer still seems to be probably not. But such able handicappers as Jennifer Duffy of the Cook Political Report now think the Democrats could gain as many as eight seats, which would mean they would need no more than a single GOP vote...
...investigator Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv)--a geek-gorgeous half-Mulder, half-Scully figure--tracks down a case a week, assisted by recently de-institutionalized genius Walter Bishop (John Noble), whose Cold War research may be connected to The Pattern, and his sarcastic son Peter (Joshua Jackson). The common thread in most of the cases: bioscience gone evil...
...your biggest monthly expense is $75 for the Pill. But maternity care is rarely covered by these plans. So if you're already a member and find yourself pregnant, some insurers may let you upgrade. If not, good luck switching carriers with a pre-existing condition--which, in the case of a normal pregnancy and delivery, can cost $8,000 to $12,000. If instead you simply break your leg, all expenses are covered beyond your deductible. It's the same if you get cancer. And though a $7,500 deductible is really steep, it's better than having...