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...follow if a rookie CEO didn't work out. So we get a transient band of failed leaders like Michael Armstrong at AT&T and Joseph Nacchio, most recently at Qwest. Whenever possible, companies should promote from within, as at IBM and GE. One immediate improvement would be to index the price at which a CEO can exercise stock options so the options have value only when the stock outperforms a peer group. And as Paulson said, CEOs should be required to disgorge any profit from stock sales in the 12 months before a bankruptcy filing...
Remember the stocks Mom and Dad used to buy? Well, they're back. Last week more technology firms were booted from London's prestigious FTSE 100 index of the top 100 stocks. Now only one pure technology company, Sage, is left on the index, and the rest have been replaced by the "old economy" companies that make and distribute the things we eat, drink, and wear. While information technology and hardware have become the worst performing sectors on the market this year - the capitalization of software companies has fallen by an average of 39% - old economy stocks have quietly lasted...
...picnic; Daschle likens it to "loading frogs on a wheelbarrow." Senate Democrats are a fractured--and fractious--bunch, including liberals itching to blast Bush, Southern "Dealocrats" who want to compromise with the White House, and presidential wannabes with their eyes on the 2004 prize. Daschle, who keeps an index card in his shirt pocket with favors that the Senators want each day, can sit for hours listening to their complaints. He has cultivated all of them, says majority whip Harry Reid, by "convincing each Senator that he or she is his favorite...
...League became alarmed at the prospect of big conference-style recruiting wars between league members, and Ivy presidents established an academic index to ensure that colleges were not sacrificing academic excellence for athletic prowess...
Using the index, admissions officers assigned recruits a score based on standardized test scores and high school class rank. The presidents then set a minimum score which recruits had to exceed...