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...spinning following the election, McAuliffe looks destined to stay on as D.N.C. head because no one else in the party can approach his skill at opening up checkbooks. To raise $100 million in hard money, McAuliffe says he will borrow a Bush campaign tactic and ask fat cats to collect $100,000 in $25,000 contributions from friends and colleagues. "If we don't replace the $100 million in hard money," says McAuliffe, "we're dead." One potential hurdle is the fury of Hollywood donors. Heavy hitters like Hollywood producer Steve Bing (who gave $5 million to Democrats over...
...multiple times in the last year by contractors and employees. The amount of money involved has not been disclosed, but the individual examples of fraud show how serious the lapse of oversight has been. One NASA contract worker billed the Hubble Space Telescope Program for $27,000 of collect phone calls from prison inmates, according to The New York Times. In another shocking case, three students who worked at the Johnson Space Center in Houston stole a safe full of moon rocks. They were caught when they later tried to unload the illicit geology on the miniscule market for authentic...
Whether you are replacing an adviser or hiring one for the first time, one aspect to consider is how you will pay. Until recently there were four basic options. Commission-based brokers offer varying levels of advice and collect sales charges when you buy or sell. Fee-based planners charge once for a comprehensive plan, then earn trading commissions. Fee-only planners don't earn commissions; they charge for a comprehensive plan that you then implement. And wealth managers charge a percentage of assets under management (typically 1% or less per year) to strategize for you. Some advisers blur these...
Sept. 11 was evidence of a decline that we had in our ability to collect, analyze and disseminate intelligence information. Would Sept. 11 have happened if we had done everything perfectly and we had not seen that decline? Perhaps. From here on out, there's never going to be a fail-safe system. We're never going to achieve total perfection in our ability to predict precise acts. But we can do much better...
...Crimson had two excellent chances to open the scoring 15 minutes into the second half, but missed on both opportunities. Tomaritis sent a shot that just missed the far crossbar, and Morrow could not collect a bouncing ball on a point-blank chance before being blocked by Princeton goalkeeper Jason White...