Word: ownerships
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...pushing for the nation's largest pension funds - those in California, New York and Texas - to lead reform in on 401(k) and accounting practices by themselves. "I have no confidence in Congress seeing any significant reform through," she says. "But we represent about 10 percent of all stock ownership in the country, and we can hammer through changes regardless of Congress - if we are emphatic about not investing in companies that don't change certain practices...
That time became critically important in 1997, when Hughes turned 12. That was the year her mother Amy, formerly an accountant, was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was also, says her father John, an attorney, the year that his daughter "took ownership of her own skating." Hughes became extremely protective of her mother and began to steer her own skating progress, working with coach Robin Wagner to ensure that she did not stagnate at the junior level. During Hughes' rise from fourth to third to second at her first three senior national championships, her mother dubbed her Dr. Sarah; watching...
...Mormon settlers will come only because they want to, and the state's leaders know that. So, as if by rote, they recite the advantages of living in Utah: low crime, great mountains, those five national parks, a tech-savvy population with the nation's highest per capita ownership of computers, and 45-min. access to world-class ski resorts from the center of Salt Lake. Yet the image of Paradise Postponed persists. The Mormon presence is always there in the background, a faint theme song that never gets turned off. "My parents think I am insane to live here...
...scooping up unfashionable assets at bargain prices and selling them later for a fat profit. Among other recent coups, the billionaire bought into American e-tailer Priceline.com following the crash of Internet stocks, and saw his stake triple in value. The Global Crossing bailout would hand the partnership majority ownership in a state-of-the-art, globe-spanning telecommunications infrastructure for an outlay equal to less than one-tenth the cost of building it. "I think at that price it's very attractive as an investment," says To Chee Eng, a telecoms analyst for Gartner. "Global Crossing went...
...Mormon settlers will come only because they want to, and the state's leaders know that. So, as if by rote, they recite the advantages of living in Utah: low crime, great mountains, those five national parks, a tech-savvy population with the nation's highest per capita ownership of computers, and 45-min. access to world-class ski resorts from the center of Salt Lake. Yet the image of Paradise Postponed persists. The Mormon presence is always there in the background, a faint theme song that never gets turned off. "My parents think I am insane to live here...