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Rogaczewski attributed the inconsistency to random error, resulting from having only one person distribute and collect ballots while simultaneously answering questions during the voting...
...trial until Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki makes a ruling on whether Simpson should pay additional punitive damages on top of the $8.5 million. The punitive stage of the trial is tentatively slated for Thursday. Louis and Juditha Brown, the parents of Nicole Brown Simpson, do not stand to collect damages since they did not bring a wrongful death case against the former football star out of fears it would have required the Simpson children, Sydney, 11, and Justin, 8, to testify against their father. During the final hours of the deliberations that started anew last Friday after a juror was dismissed...
...their retirement savings, through Social Security, are invested. That's what most members of the government's Advisory Council on Social Security concluded last week, as the group suggested three reform options that would postpone the day, now only about 15 years away, when the program will begin to collect less in taxes than it has promised to pay out in benefits...
...foreign-owned cars, levying fines and confiscating license plates. Roughly 1,000 cars were stopped by city traffic cops, known by their Russian acronym GAI (gai-EE), during the two-day operation, which ended Thursday. Famed throughout Moscow for their ability to disperse fines, as well as collect bribes, with lightning speed, the GAI have reported somewhat triumphantly that Americans accounted for the majority of the 200 traffic violations detected. Most foreign drivers are easily recognizable on Moscow streets thanks to special license plates, a leftover from Soviet days, which allow cops to identify both the nationality and profession...
More typically, an investment banker at the managing-director level who earned a $1.5 million bonus last year will collect between $2 million and $2.3 million this year. A midlevel bond trader may well draw $750,000, about 50% more than in 1995 (which was a very good year). At Morgan Stanley, bonuses will increase anywhere from 30% to 40%, with the biggest checks going to investment bankers who handled stock deals, and mergers and acquisitions...