Word: counsels
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...with dozens of affiliates in insurance, securities, heavy industry, chemicals and even hotels. Samsung wields tremendous economic and political influence in South Korea. Its companies account for some 20% of the nation's exports. The charges against Lee are a result of an investigation started after a former Samsung counsel accused the group late last year of operating a slush fund to bribe politicians and bureaucrats. (Lee, however, wasn't charged with bribery...
...suggestion is to make small- and medium-size business a priority, and they take Latin America to task for doing less than 3% of the world's R&D spending while Asia accounts for more than a third of it. If more of the region's leaders had taken counsel like this a decade ago, Hugo Chávez and the Latin left might not have such a large, impoverished crowd to play to today. Whether or not this is the century of the Americas, these books offer a guide to how Latin America can enter...
...says the burgeoning field of employee engagement, a movement that aims to quantify what, exactly, a company gets when it puts money into bonding with its workers. Consultancies such as Towers Perrin, Watson Wyatt, Hewitt Associates and the Gallup Organization measure how "engaged" workers are and then counsel companies on how to ratchet up those scores. The result is a slew of initiatives--like frequently telling workers how they generate value and offering them free retraining to move from one division to another--that go far beyond the rudimentary concept of motivating people with pay to get them to work...
...public service. The four-part initiative will raise the baseline income below which loans are forgiven from $46,500 to $60,000 to aid middle-income graduate students, double the number of fully funded post-graduate fellowships from 14 to 28, hire a full-time public interest director to counsel students, and increase funding for summer public interest opportunities, according to a statement Koh sent to the law school community. “Our philosophy has always been that money not be the sole deciding factor in a student’s choice of a public interest position during...
...Scott Bloch, the head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel - charged with protecting federal whistle-blowers - says he is investigating several new cases involving possibly flawed compliance with airworthiness directives that could lead to more groundings. "There are additional revelations about oversight issues with regard to airline safety that are coming forward," Bloch told TIME on Tuesday. He says his office is probing four or five cases involving two, and possibly three, airlines, but declined to offer any additional details. "Until these new cases develop, I can't speak to whether there would be likely groundings," he says...