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...profit organization Ashoka around a dinner table in Lowell House, is one of the social entrepreneurs named on the list. He stressed the importance of this growing field. “It’s not just you and me, but everyone could be a change-maker,” Drayton said. “If this [story] helps even one percent of the readers say to themselves, ‘If those people can do it, maybe I can,’ that makes the whole enterprise worth it.” —Laura A. Moore contributed...
...Bernanke is the right man to build on the record Alan Greenspan has established,” Bush said, praising the nominee’s “record of excellence as both an academic and policy maker...
...Bernanke is the right man to build on the record Alan Greenspan has established,” Bush said, praising the nominee’s “record of excellence as both an academic and policy maker...
...same time corporate executives are paid retirement dollars for years they never worked, hapless employees lose supplemental retirement benefits for a lifetime of actual work. Just ask Betty Moss. She was one of thousands of workers at Polaroid Corp.--the Waltham, Mass., maker of instant cameras and film--who, beginning in 1988, gave up 8% of their salary to underwrite an employee stock-ownership plan, or ESOP. It was created to thwart a corporate takeover and "to provide a retirement benefit" to Polaroid employees to supplement their pension, the company pledged. Alas, it was not to be. Polaroid was slow...
...through the voluminous filings of individual companies with the SEC or the Labor Department, where pension-plan finances are recorded, or turn to the reports of independent firms such as Standard & Poor's. The findings aren't reassuring. According to S&P, Sara Lee Corp. of Chicago, a global maker of food products, ended 2004 with a pension deficit of $1.5 billion. The company's pension plans held enough assets to cover 69.8% of promised retirement pay. Ford Motor Co.'s deficit came in at $12.3 billion. It could write retirement checks for 83% of money owed. ExxonMobil Corp...