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...Rand Araskog, whose $7 million in 1990 compensation touched off a maelstrom, agreed to a dramatic overhaul of his pay package. The company replaced outright stock grants with options based on the performance of the company's stock, and Araskog agreed to reduce the size of his annual bonus. Says Hanson: "Shareholders are waking up to the fact that they're owners and not just investors...
Darling-Hammond, 40, was an undergraduate at Yale University and received her Ed.D. from Temple University. Before going to Columbia, she served 10 years at the Rand Corporation, a Washington, D.C. think tank...
...Rand Corp. report described the average security guard as an aging white male who was underscreened, undertrained, undersupervised, underpaid and underregulated. The only significant change in that profile, according to Hallcrest Systems of McLean, Va., which closely monitors the industry, is that today's private guard is more likely to be much younger and black or Hispanic...
Twenty years ago, according to the Rand report, half the nation's private guards bore arms on the job. Today, 10% or fewer do so. But that still leaves 100,000 gun-toting guards -- more than the combined police forces of the country's 30 largest cities. Yet weapons training for this army is generally skimpy. A recent survey found that eight hours was about average, and that a large part of the training consists of the mechanics of shooting rather than preparation for the real-life situations guards are likely to encounter. The survey also found that...
...Paula B. Rand '93, who acted in The Seagull two years ago, said "[The Nora Theatre program] was one of the best things I did my freshman year...