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...this country and most of the rest of the world by his irresponsible actions. Asking those who are sickened by Bush's past four years to declare a truce is like asking a fundamentalist Christian to have lunch with the devil. It's not going to happen. Richard Moberg Philadelphia...
...Jean-Pierre Garnier last December after shareholders voted it down at the annual meeting. (He still earned $5 million last year in salary and bonus, a 14% raise.) Even at Ahold, which was in need of a white knight following an accounting scandal last year, the new CEO, Anders Moberg, faced a storm of criticism over his guaranteed $1.68 million bonus for each of his first two years. That was on top of a $1.68 million salary and stock options as well as a hefty exit package. Moberg, a Swede who formerly ran Ikea, eventually agreed to take a lower...
...time, the chairman of the world's third largest food retailer, scandal-tainted Netherlands-based Royal Ahold (whose U.S. chains include Giant Food and Stop & Shop), stepped down following national outrage over his failure to inform investors of the two-year, $6.8 million contract he gave new CEO Anders Moberg. The French government pressured Pierre Bilger, the ex-CEO of engineering giant Alstom, into returning a $4.6 million severance payment, and shareholders of Europe's largest drugmaker, London-based GlaxoSmithKline, rejected the $36.5 million payment CEO Jean Pierre Garnier would receive if he lost his job. "Everyone in Europe...
...Mats Moberg Hisings...
...Moberg's peasants, working always in the soil, thinking in terms of generations -of plants, of animals, of themselves - feel that they are part of a never-ending process of creation, deriving from the past, foreshadowing the future. This feeling makes them crudely mystical, stolidly enduring, slow to change, suspicious of the nervous life and fidgety minds of cities. Knut Hamsun understood that being a peasant is not just a rural occupation, but a complete way of living and thinking, with which he sympathized. Moberg understands the peasant's life too, but does not sympathize. He has ideas...