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Lamie says such procedures afford current leadership a measure of flexibility in choosing its successors. They also provide some guarantee that future leadership meets certain criteria, meritocratic or otherwise...
...take advantage of Tut's apparent frailty, an ancient criminal, like a contemporary one, would need means, opportunity and motive. Using these criteria, "we initially looked at the entire Egyptian empire," Cooper says. "But we quickly narrowed the focus to Tut's inner circle." Eventually, they winnowed the field to just four suspects: Maya, Tut's chief treasurer; Horemheb, his military commander; Ankhesenamen, his wife; and Ay, his Prime Minister. (Warning: plot spoiler ahead...
Innovest's ratings are of particular interest to a growing class of fund managers, including pioneers Amy Domini of Domini Social Investments and Reto Ringger of Sustainable Asset Management, who limit their investments to companies that meet certain environmental and social criteria. Assets in U.S. socially screened funds surpassed $2 trillion last year, a 36% increase since 1999 and a rate of growth 1.5 times as fast as the average of other professionally managed U.S. funds, according to a Social Investment Forum study...
...wine was produced. Quality controls introduced in 1974 are administered by growers themselves: 98% of wines submitted pass the test. "We've lost ?152 million in AOC exports," says Elodie Pasty of the Institut National des Appellations d'Origine: "We're going to have to tighten up our quality criteria...
François Clavadetscher, a newly retired Swiss captain who came from the Swissair side, says the conflict has been fueled by jealousy. "We are better trained, have higher qualifications and undergo stricter selection criteria," he says. "It is normal that our salaries are higher. No airline will pay the same to long-haul pilots and those flying commuter planes." If the union persists in its demands, Swiss spokesman Markus Baumgartner warns, the company would have to restructure its route network in order to save money for the payout, a move that could cripple the fledgling airline. Meanwhile, management...