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...comes. The Monica team has no public face, never says much, spends a lot of time in secret legal proceedings and has a clear goal: to keep the President in office. The Iraq team, on the other hand, has a goal no one can easily sell, and a dozen spokesmen and -women who fanned out last week in full dress...
...upended the firm's age-old philosophy of dedicated product testing prior to direct-mail pitches, was roundly criticized by Wall Street as lacking coherence. In the week the plan was presented, the stock dropped 21%. Schadt's strategy was further hampered by the departure of more than two dozen senior executives...
According to University Police Services, every year, more than two dozen University students die in alcohol-related traffic accidents, drownings, falls and similar accidents. More startling is that last year, more than 100 students at the University were admitted to Centre Community Hospital for acute alcohol poisoning after celebrating their 21st birthday, according to police services. While numbers can be starting, they do not convey the seriousness of alcohol-related incidents...
Just ask Green Tree, where many shareholders remain bitter about the profit revision, which included a $190 million write-down for the fourth quarter of 1997. Angry investors have filed at least a dozen lawsuits, some charging that Green Tree used improperly "aggressive" accounting methods to tot up profits and thereby boost Coss's personal pay--a charge the company denies. Coss did enjoy a formula that accorded him a salary of $400,000 plus 2.5% of the company's pretax profits. Half the compensation was in cash, the other half in the form of Green Tree stock that Coss...
...Comedy Central charged with handling this situation. "We do want to protect our property, but we don't want to alienate our fans." Lieberman understands why South Park is ripe for the stealing: its surprise success caught Comedy Central in short supply. Fewer than a dozen episodes have been produced, and they are getting heavily recycled. "With a new episode every week, the itch gets scratched on television," says Lieberman. "But we can't create episodes fast enough." So in a curious way, the Net is helping keep the troops in line. That isn't to say the free lunch...