Word: giveback
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...Clinton campaign has blamed a faulty background check for its failure to scrub Hsu's past and says it will return the $850,000--the largest such single giveback in presidential-campaign history. And while there is no evidence that Hsu received any special governmental access for his largesse--either from Clinton or Barack Obama or any of the other numerous Democratic candidates he enriched--the role of bundlers like him will certainly come under more scrutiny from the press and the campaigns. Clinton's advisers have already promised to take a close look at any future mysterious strangers bearing...
...long-term savings on retiree health care, but Wagoner needs rank-and-file concessions, and union officials are talking tough. "It was probably the most difficult backward step for us to take in the history of our union," says U.A.W. chief Ron Gettelfinger, referring to the $15 billion "giveback...
...We’re still trying to find our way in terms of understanding how to capitalize on turnovers,” he added. “I think our team still gets turnovers, gets overly excited and all of a sudden it’s a giveback to the other squad...
...GREAT S&L GIVEBACK Owners of savings and loan associations, many of whom are suing the Federal Government for clamping down on them during the S&L crisis in the 1980s, will benefit from a one-paragraph clause that was slipped into legislation that will hold the U.S. government liable for billions of dollars in damage claims because federal regulators nixed certain accounting practices. As is typical with special-interest measures, there were no hearings or estimates of the cost before the clause mysteriously showed up in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1998. Among the potential...