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...universal replacement to the pension, by the consensus of the Bush Administration, Congress, Wall Street and corporate America, is the ubiquitous 401(k). As Bush explained at a gathering at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala., earlier this year, "When I was young, I didn't know anything about 401(k)s because I don't think they existed. Defined-benefit plans were the main source of retirement. Now they've got what they call defined-contribution plans. Workers are taking aside some of their own money and watching it grow through safe and secure investments...
...many critics, however, Nagin, 49, is a mercurial political neophyte incapable of creating the consensus building necessary for such a giant undertaking. He seemed distracted and impatient last week at the first public meeting of his Bring New Orleans Back Commission. Just days earlier, without consulting the commission, he had announced a controversial proposal to allow casino gambling in several large downtown hotels--only to see the idea panned by everyone from Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco to chambermaids. And his opponents certainly haven't forgotten his performance in the first, darkest days after Katrina, when Nagin admonished sluggish federal...
...tiny worlds with names like Sedna, Quaoar and 2004 DW? Part of the problem is that there is no precise scientific definition of the word planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is trying to hammer one out, but the decision is proving more difficult than anyone thought. An apparent consensus, reached just weeks ago, seems to have fallen apart. "The current state," admits Brian Marsden, director of the IAU's Minor Planet Center at Harvard, "is rather confusing...
...open ourselves up,” said CLC Chair John F. Voith III ’07. “People are starting to realize there needs to be some sort of change.” Change was the order of the hour when the meeting began. The general consensus among both the CLC members and the approximately 25 guests who attended was that the CLC—which is a sub-committee of the Undergraduate Council (UC)—had not sufficiently publicized its events. There was some divergence, however, as to how publicity campaigns should be spearheaded...
...research,” he says. “What worked in the past is not necessarily what will work in the future.”MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Joseph B. Lassier III says that the HBS faculty do not seem to be near a consensus on the school’s direction, but he observes that a dialogue has grown among the faculty.“There has been a huge amount of discussion involving the many different views about what the school should be like in the future,” he says.THE CONTENDERSDatar...