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Citi has long deferred the payment of stock options that are granted at the end of the year. Cash bonuses, though, have always been paid at the time they were granted, typically in January for prior-year performance. But this year Citi decided to defer bonus payments for the first time. Instead of paying a lump sum in early 2009 for 2008 performance, payouts would be spread over four years, with the first payouts in January...
...prior studies] were limited retrospective case studies leading many investigators to conclude that blood type was a risk factor,” Fuchs said. “Although it remained in the knowledge base of medicine, I don’t think people necessarily believed...
...meet’s eventual first place finisher by a tenth of a second.But there was a time when first place showings weren’t so unexpected. Taking the pool for nearly two decades alongside his twin brother Bill, Dan enjoyed more than his share of success prior to this winter. Raised in a family that included four male swimmers, Bill and Dan showed a drive to dominate the pool from the moment they hit the water.“We always had a good family dynamic for swimming,” Bill recalls...
...Ireland and Sinn Féin—which has been historically associated with the Irish Republican Army—were in much different straits. That year, a series of ceasefires were called to put an end to a decades-long period of ethno-political conflict in Northern Ireland. Prior to the ceasefires, multi-party negotiations had commenced without Sinn Féin, but the party was admitted to the table later on the condition of an end to the violence. Adams said that Sinn Féin was “first and foremost an Irish republican party...
...Furthermore, the cloture/filibuster rule is not something enshrined by centuries of observance. The rule, as practiced currently, is a quite recent invention. Prior to the late ’60s, it was primarily used by Southern senators seeking to block civil-rights legislation. Filibusters were not a factor in enacting the legislative agendas of presidents from Roosevelt through Bush Sr. The filibuster has only entered into wide usage in the last 15 years, beginning in Bill Clinton’s first term, when Republicans filibustered 32 times during the 103rd Congress. That number has grown steadily since, thanks to both...