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...before it was made public, to forgo the additional $48 million. For many the gesture was too late. The episode had already become a painful reminder of the cronyism and greed that thrived during the Internet bubble. It may be worse in this case because the N.Y.S.E. is a quasi-regulatory body that should be setting the standard for responsible management. Sources at the SEC say Donaldson has long been concerned about excessive CEO pay, an area of abuse he is determined to clean up. A senior SEC official told TIME that, as a result, the agency is weighing public...
...answers, marketers hope, can be discovered through an emerging quasi-science known broadly as psychographics. Market researchers supplement conventional marketing data with informed assumptions about personality traits and human behavior gleaned from other disciplines, including psychology, sociology and probability theory. Using computers to organize and manipulate vast storehouses of such consumer information, they believe they are getting much better at sorting people into categories of like-minded individuals. And once the sorting is done, they are getting better at predicting how people are likely to behave...
Harvard concludes in the brief that HUPD reports do not qualify as public records although the officers who created them are endowed with “quasi-governmental powers...
...stream for retired U.S. workers but today are increasingly falling into disrepair and deficit. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Comptroller General, concerned about a rise in the number of companies no longer able to meet their pension obligations and the magnitude of their shortfalls, labeled as "high risk" a quasi-federal agency that steps in to pay retirees when companies cannot. Saddled with a deficit of $5.4 billion and counting, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) might need a government bailout--a predicament that Treasury Secretary John Snow told the Wall Street Journal was "a brewing problem somewhat analogous...
...people took to the streets of Hong Kong again last week, eight days after the half-million-person rally that rattled the ruling structure of the Chinese territory. This time they held a nighttime "vigil" outside the colonial landmark that houses the Legislative Council (Legco), Hong Kong's quasi-representative parliament. As solons debated a soccer-gambling bill inside, protesters carpeted the surrounding streets, waving Glowsticks, chanting slogans and singing We Shall Overcome in Cantonese and English. A Christian procession carried candles. Yellow-shirted devotees of the Falun Gong mystical movement?still legal in Hong Kong despite its Public Enemy...