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...bound to keep Beijing's economic policymakers--who fear the political consequences of widespread social unrest--up at night. Sun, the Lehman Brothers economist, says that as manufacturers are pushed to the brink, China's stock markets could see sharp declines. Given that many large, listed Chinese companies pad their profits by investing in stocks themselves, "a big correction could bring [corporate earnings] even lower, and a vicious cycle could result," says...
...straight batters reached on a walk or single with one out and Tyler Albright and sophomore designated hitter Chris Rouches hit two-run singles.Kramer’s three-run blast—his second home run in as many days against the Bulldogs—allowed Harvard to pad its lead in the fourth. Harvard coach Joe Walsh had placed Kramer in the cleanup spot in his lineup, hoping to capitalize on the senior’s recent hot streak at the plate with senior slugger Tom Stack-Babich out of the lineup due to injury...
...activist investors, kept spiraling out of control," says Richard Ferlauto, AFSCME's director of pension and benefit policy. The quintessential example: after Congress passed a law that gave companies incentives to cap CEO base salaries at $1 million a year, the issuance of stock options, an alternative way to pad pay packages, skyrocketed - to the point that by 2005, average large-company CEO compensation had reached 262 times the average employee's take, compared with 24 times in 1965, according to the Economic Policy Institute...
...initiative. “The obvious question is, do we have a quorum?” Burgard asked, setting in motion a brief flurry of activity at the front of the Faculty Room, where Bisson, smiling, rose to tear a sheet of paper off of her small yellow notebook pad. Examining the sheet, University President Drew G. Faust conferred briefly with the meeting’s acting parliamentarian, Chinese History Professor Peter K. Bol, before making her pronouncement into the microphone: “no.” “I would like to say that I don?...
...points per game and third with 1.06 assists per game, and the only reason she didn’t rank higher was because she did exactly what her team needed her to do to win—instead of frantically trying to create scoring chances out of nowhere to pad her stats...