Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STARTING NEXT YEAR, HIGHLY PAID CORPORATE EXecutives are going to have a lot of explaining to do. Under new regulations adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, companies will have to disclose in unprecedented detail how much their top executives earn, as well as tell stockholders how those pay packages were determined. The rules are the latest effort in a movement by stockholder groups and politicians to curb excessive pay and perks. Shareholders at 43 corporations, including IBM, Bell Atlantic and Chrysler, challenged CEO compensation this year. And at least two pay-disclosure bills have been introduced in Congress...
...autobiography I, Rigoberta Menchu, which eventually appeared in 11 languages. It tells of Quiche life in the mountains and the domination of the Indians, who make up 60% of the population, by the minority Ladinos, mostly the descendants of the European colonists. Her book recounts, in horrifying detail, the torture and death of family members...
...spun out at every opportunity, whether in shorthand in St. Louis or in some greater detail on the stump, the differences between the candidates' economic views could not be greater. The two candidates' views regarding the recently negotiated North American Free Trade Agreement illustrate that gap. Both support NAFTA as vital for the nation's economic future, but Bush clearly believes that merely establishing a new North American trade zone is sufficient to spur economic growth. In the President's mind, free trade is an end in itself; once established, market forces will determine winners and losers on the merits...
...anyway, Bush simply refuses to detail how he would pay for any of this. In Detroit last month, he said the money would come from $132 billion in cuts he's already outlined. Three problems. First, Congress has already rejected these cuts. Second, the cuts include making Medicare recipients and veterans pay more for certain services. This is a truly bad idea when upper-income taxpayers are so clearly due a modest tax hike after years of Reagan-Bush. (And it exposes Bush as a liar since he's said time and again to veterans groups that...
...each year must watch 300 new movies, many of them junk. This may explain why Auntie Lee's Meat Pies, Lucky Stiff, Homer & Eddie and Closet Land -- films that barely achieved theatrical release -- are among the targets of Medved's dudgeon. It also leads him to catalog, in avid detail, outrages of manners in the movies. Who else would think to tabulate recent films with scenes of vomiting (36) or urination...