Word: marshalling
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...point of view of high policy within the Empire, a step thoroughly rash or irretrievable. For years after the World War, truculent Ireland was torn with the bloodiest of civil strife-1,200 outrages within a year and the shooting down in London itself by Irish assassins of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. But even that crisis was solved after Prime Minister Lloyd George discovered that in the Irish tongue there is no word for "Republic." Created was a Saorstat ("Free State") which Englishmen can think of as a "dominion" while Irishmen plume themselves on the dignity of President Eamon...
...astonishing $250 billion, equivalent to 7.5% of all corporate earnings. Defenders of the status quo say that such bloated pay provides managers--particularly CEOs--with incentives crucial to high performance. Those defenders have not yet read Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried's Pay Without Performance. The authors marshal a formidable arsenal of facts to pick apart the incentives argument, exposing myriad ways in which CEOs have decoupled pay from performance and hidden that fact from investors with the aid of supine corporate directors. The lucidly argued treatise frames the issue not in ethical terms but as a problem of efficiency...
...hospital there, Jenkins announced that when he was well, he would turn himself in to the U.S. Army. On Sept. 11, Jenkins presented himself at the gates of Camp Zama, a U.S. Army base about an hour's drive from Tokyo. He approached Lieut. Colonel Paul Nigara, provost marshal of the U.S. Army Japan, briskly saluted and said, "Sir, I'm Sergeant Jenkins, and I'm reporting." The longest-missing deserter ever to return to the U.S. Army, he was initially charged with one count of desertion, one of aiding the enemy, two of soliciting others to desert and four...
...class of 2005 confirmed that sentiment when they made him their first class marshal last month. Franklin has big plans for the position, all of them focused on trying to bring the class of 2005 closer together. “I’m like the cruise ship director for the class of 2005,” he explains...
Following the posting of the endorsement banner on thefacebook, First Senior Class Marshal Caleb I. Franklin ’05—who is working on Moore’s campaign—e-mailed Einkauf to complain that he had similar access to a large group of students but opted not to e-mail the entire senior class because it would be an “abuse of power.” Later on yesterday evening, Franklin sent an e-mail to an undisclosed recipient list encouraging students to vote for Moore...