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Successful companies (those with above-average five-year shareholder returns) are boosting pay for top workers, finds consultancy Towers Perrin. The goody bag includes cash awards, company stock and total compensation packages well above industry norms. Average companies, however, are more likely to be keeping salary increases at a minimum...
...global AIDS pandemic or the United States’ responsibility to do something about it. But few claim to be greater champions in the battle against global AIDS than our own President Bush. This summer Bush traveled to Africa, the epicenter of the AIDS crisis, to tout his unprecedented five-year, $15 billion AIDS initiative, which he announced in his last State of the Union Address. The trip was billed as a veritable victory lap of the continent, a chance to put a more compassionate face on the administration’s foreign policy...
Harvard’s Bauer Center for Genomics Research (CGR) has netted a five-year, $15 million grant from one of the National Institutes of Health to investigate organisms’ molecular structure...
...collection of favorite songs like Schubert's Der Wanderer and Finzi's Rollicum-Rorum, won him the Gramophone magazine award for best newcomer. Although EMI are cagey about the figures, it sold tens of thousands - extremely good for an unknown singer - persuading the label to sign him to a five-year contract. His triumph in New Zealand music competitions led famous judges Sarah Walker and Tom Krause to recommend him to London's Royal College of Music, where he won the college's gold medal. It's not only Lemalu's vast, rolling bass-baritone that has marked...
...started at the discount brokerage firm where I had an account. There I met with Mr. Income Annuity. He was short, stocky, substantial--bullish, you might say. After much computer analysis, he recommended that I spend a not insignificant sum on a five-year annuity and prescribed a "wealth-replacement" plan. But I didn't like the idea of replacing wealth. I preferred the idea of holding on to wealth...