Word: gifting
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...March of the Penguins: They came all the way from Antarctica for this and they want their stinkin' gift bags...
...company jet. Fast-food restaurant Jack in the Box spent more than $51,000 on financial planning for outgoing CEO Robert Nugent, who made $2.1 million in salary and bonus, and presumably can pay for his own investment advice. There?s been disclosures of $2,000 gift cards for directors and one sweetheart deal where a company spent millions leasing aircraft from its CEO?s privately owned firm. And as part of his effort to shake up management at Time Warner (parent company of Time.com), investor Carl Icahn has been railing of late against what he calls excessive perks...
...better for Hamas to come to power via the ballot box than the gun. The election holds out the possibility of moderation-and also the possibility that the leaders of Hamas will come to learn what Bush seems not to understand: that freedom isn't a gift. It is an achievement...
...Democracy requires the exact opposite. It demands that people take charge of their lives and make informed decisions. That takes time, the careful accumulation of the habits of citizenship. Bush's "gift" formulation sends exactly the wrong message; it leads people to believe that all they need is a purple finger and life will get better. The President seems a victim of that same delusion: he seems to believe that we can get away with promoting democracy through glorious rhetoric without doing the slow, expensive, heavy lifting of nation building. It is easy to talk about the need for decent...
...reason to expect more last weekend. She grew up believing she would inherit the remainder of her family's fortune - in excess of $1 billion - and assume a hereditary role at the helm of the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, an organization managing corporate and charitable operations. But that birthday gift did not materialize. As a family insider predicted two weeks before her birthday, "Athina's 21st birthday will come and go without her seeing a single penny of her grandfather's fortune." Indeed, added the friend, "she'll most certainly inherit another long-term problem." Or rather a struggle, which...