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...Worse, she thought, was the blow to CalPERS' long-held national reputation as an advocate for responsible corporate governance. When Connell brought up the issue - repeatedly and forcefully - she was dismissed by other board members, the minutes show. "Enron had a question mark by their name and yet we were willing to go in the back door and make money off of the deal. I thought that was unseemly...
...long-running tech soap opera that is United States v. Microsoft had slogged along for much of the summer without a major twist, so it was fine timing when the Justice Department jumped in last week and moved the plot along. The newest twist: the government announced it is abandoning its long-held goal of breaking Microsoft up into smaller companies...
...success of Macedonia's insurgency may lie partly in the fact that when Albanian nationalists in Kosovo first sent a guerrilla army into the impoverished former Yugoslav republic, they found a huge pool of young Albanian men willing to join up. They were driven by a long-held sense of political and cultural grievance against the Macedonian authorities. But for many, the decision may have been made easier by the mass unemployment that left little hope of finding a job. Guerrillas always imagine themselves in heroic terms, and they have a sense of purpose that beats sitting around waiting...
Though his main supporters in SAC were conservatives, Milikowsky describes himself as a "staunch Democrat" and his ideology as a "free-market liberal"--both long-held convictions, he says...
...recently had the chance to interview Fisher, who remarked that his concept for the film sprang from his fond childhood remembrances of Boston’s legions of street performers. This long-held fondness, he continued, melded with an intellectual spirit that owed something to his “own love of language and ideas,” yielded a black-and-white film whose ideas and conceits can be surprisingly colorful. Questions about Han Solo, Thundercats and the meaning of life all get equal time at his table, and he’s as at ease wrangling a phone...