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Joseph Grundfest, a Stanford Law School professor, attributes a recent drop in shareholder lawsuits to aggressive government enforcement following the Enron fraud. But others say Grundfest discounts more likely causes: a relatively steady stock market and the criminal investigation of the law firm that files most shareholder suits. And even if he's right, a strategy of criminal prosecution is still a bad idea...
...globe-trotting glamour, the life of a diplomat can also be harrowing. In 1997 David Welch volunteered to drop into northern Iraq to broker a cease-fire between two feuding Kurdish militias that Washington hoped could eventually help overthrow Saddam Hussein. For Welch, there was one major risk to going in: he wasn't sure how he would get out. "What's your evacuation plan?" fretted Jim Steinberg, then Deputy National Security Adviser in the Clinton White House. "Five hundred bucks in cash," Welch replied, "and a bottle of Scotch...
...experience, but a way to give listeners more innovative programming options.Ideas such as HD radio, which offers multiple programs on one channel and works on the same frequencies allocated to FM and AM stations, give local stations the ability to experiment with programming without risking bankruptcy or a significant drop in listeners. This versatility offers listeners an opportunity to decide whether or not the new programming is worth listening to.If the programming is successful, radio stations will have data to go to advertisers with so they can continue to stay in business.While HD radio remains costly at this point?...
Fueled by a 9% drop in Chinese stocks, the Dow dropped 416 points last Tuesday, the largest single-day drop in over five years. In one day $632 billion dollars in value was erased from the U.S. stock market. News of the precipitous drop dominated cable news and newspaper coverage. It would be fair to guess that searches leading to news sites would focus on the market correction, perhaps the growing unease in Iran or perhaps the pending collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market. To the contrary, news searches last week were completely dominated by one individual: Antonella Barba...
...term, "Antonella Barba," was the most popular search term for the week ending March 3, 2007. "Antonella Barba photos," and "Antonella Barba pictures" were also in the top 10 search queries of over 400,000 terms captured last week. The search associated with the stock market drop, simply the query "stock market," was in the 327th position...