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Disgruntled shareholders have been taking a tougher and more vocal stand against company directors in 2009 over issues ranging from frothy executive pay packages to company stock performance, according to a new study. And experts believe this trend could fuel efforts by Congress and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to bring in changes to corporate-governance rules...
...truth may be that Obama doesn't have much scope for substance, because he is to some extent a prisoner of Congress. The White House doesn't want to repeat the mistake made by former President Bill Clinton with the Kyoto Protocol by agreeing internationally to emissions cuts that have no support at home. That means Obama has to wait for Congress to act - and although the House passed a carbon cap in June, there's little chance of the Senate acting on the bill before the end of the year. That leaves Obama - and global climate negotiations...
...Even after the election of Barack Obama, Congress fell back into the old debate of ‘We need to bring back FDR’ versus ‘We need to bring back Ronald Reagan,’” Khazei said in an interview. “I think both are wrong. It’s the 21st century now—we need a new approach. We need big citizenship instead of big government...
...would allow private media only a third of all broadcast licenses while granting state and nonprofit outlets the other two-thirds, forcing giants like Clarín to sell off chunks of their media assets. The bill looks set to win final passage next week in Congress, where the Peronists are enjoying their final weeks at the helm...
...often the proceedings of the Communist Party of China resemble a detective story, but the Fourth Plenum of the 17th Congress, which just concluded in Beijing, fits the bill perfectly. In fact, the Plenum, the Party's biggest annual meeting at which major policy and personnel decisions are made, is being compared to the Sherlock Homes storyline in which the most significant clue is something that did not occur - the guard dog that didn't bark on the night of the murder. At the characteristically secretive Plenum, the equivalent clue into the mystery of who will be China's next...