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...Obama announced his selection of Devaney, currently inspector general at the Department of the Interior, as chairman of the new Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board. Devaney will work with Vice President Joe Biden to monitor for wasteful spending and issue periodic reports to the public. It's a familiar watchdog role for the long-time government servant. During his tenure at Interior, Devaney uncovered the shady dealings of disgraced ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, an investigation that eventually led to Abramoff's imprisonment and the resignation of Interior's no. 2, J. Steven Griles, for lying under oath about...
Excerpted from The Yankee Years by Joe Torre and Tom Verducci. Copyright 2009 by Anjoli Inc. and Tom Verducci. Reprinted with permission by Doubleday, a division of Random House Inc. All rights reserved...
...economy at the London School of Economics. "The European leaders proposing this international regulation are generally conservative, not wild-eyed socialists. Still, any effort to come up with international rules applicable to the U.S. usually raises fears about American businesses finding themselves hog-tied as a result-which gets Joe the Plumber types shouting bloody murder." (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Joe Hinrichs, group vice president of Global Manufacturing and Labor Affairs at Ford Motor Company, said the tentative agreement gives Ford "the option" of using Ford common stock for up to 50% of the payments into the VEBA in lieu of cash. "We will consider each payment when it is due and use our discretion in determining whether cash or stock makes sense at the time, balancing our liquidity needs and preserving shareholder value," Hinrichs said...
With freshman Joe Tofte unable to compete due to illness, freshman Torin O’Brien stepped up to fill Tofte’s place and finished 58th...