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...fairly recent development. But routine efforts to stretch the financial truth, particularly among small companies, have been going on for a long time. It gets down to basic honesty and integrity. Some managements have a strong sense of that, and others don't. Combine that with a flexible moral framework with stock options, and over a period of time the focus has increasingly shifted to how rich can you get, how fast? The ploy is to keep expectations rising. But at some point the business won't support the expectations, and that's when the cheating starts...
...after all, her legitimacy (as the leader of the party that won the 1990 general election), integrity and stoic acceptance of house arrest enable her to occupy the moral high ground. The generals, on the other hand, are under growing pressure to thrash out with their arch nemesis a framework to move the country forward. Burma is in desperate shape due to a combination of grievous abuse and mismanagement by the military regime and international isolation over allegations of forced labor and the treatment of dissidents, chief among them Suu Kyi. Letting her go is the vital first step...
Launching pell-mell into an original composition, drummer Chris Dave provided an overbearing framework to “Two Down & One Across” while Garrett positively screamed into his horn. Dave repeatedly called for the piano monitor of Vernell Brown to be turned up, instead of adjusting the level of his own playing. Something was amiss. Instead of easing his audience into his jazz-pop aesthetic, Garrett’s opening was an indigestible attack. In an evening centered around compositions from Garrett’s latest album Happy People, it was hit or miss whether the group would...
...what?” In Nuremburg, in Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, the “international community,” meaning the strong nations, decided that the crimes were so heinous that they didn’t care that they had no statutory authority under an existing legal framework to prosecute these cases. Rather, they invented a court and prosecutors, created rules for it to follow, and gave it powers (based on their military strength, whether it be as military conquerors in post-war Germany or as the collective will of NATO or the Security Council...
...education system. It is thus unreasonable for Massachusetts to oblige all its students to pass one test. The school board’s decision will not only be the quickest way to demonstrate opposition and necessitate change in the punitive state law; it also demonstrates that, under a reasonable framework, school districts should be able to establish their own graduation guidelines to best benefit their students...