Word: chasings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...disciplined and unappealing," a prominent Democrat told me. "It's a real problem." It is more than that: a campaign that will help determine whether Democrats have the expansive soul to become a majority party once more. Liberals hunt down heretics, Michael Kinsley once wrote, while conservatives happily chase converts. Webb is a convert in a party that mistrusts converts. His candidacy is a litmus test for a party that loves litmus tests...
...moral victory is won, says Steve Berman, a Seattle attorney representing some 21,000 employees who lost their pensions. "Now we hope to get them an economic victory." Banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, who financed Enron's schemes with stock and bond offerings, have already agreed to pay $7.3 billion in restitution to shareholders. They're getting nothing from Skilling and Lay, whom the feds are already dunning for more than $150 million. "There's little chance of recovery from them, but most will be satisfied that Skilling and Lay were convicted," says Robin Harrison of Houston...
...guilty counts - including conspiracy, securities and wire fraud. ?It was a moral victory. Now we hope to get them an economic victory,? said Steve Berman, one of the attorneys representing pensioners ruined by Enron?s demise. In addition to $7.2 billion wrung out of banks like JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup in securities fraud litigation, employees are still waiting to get $260 million for lost benefits...
...Management Company (HMC) announced last week that it had appointed a chief for its newly created foreign exchange management team. Karen Parker Feld will join HMC from Wellington Management Company, where she currently manages over $20 billion in her capacity as director of foreign exchange. Previously, Feld worked for Chase Manhattan Bank as a managing director and the head of currency research for Chase Manhattan Bank. In a statement, HMC President Mohamed A. El-Erian said he looked forward to working with Parker Feld. “Karen brings to HMC proven strong portfolio management skills in the foreign exchange...
...argue that smokers need to be saved from themselves. After England passed a total ban on smoking in public places, The Guardian newspaper congratulated parliamentarians on rescuing citizens: “[Smokers] need not just encouragement to stop, but help.” Why not cut to the chase and ban cigarettes altogether...