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...thankless role of the one sensible cadet in a bunch of college cutups. He was a radio announcer, again, in Boy Meets Girl--a good bit part, letting him display a frantic aplomb at a movie premiere as chaos erupts and he tries both to describe it and to rein...
...lack of motive. In P.N.G., politicians' futures depend on how much funding they can get for their local areas, but Treasurer Bart Philemon has kept a tight rein on public spending. "Some of the M.P.s were expecting a lot more money for things they had promised the electorate," says former politician Bernard Narokobi. "Others were pushing for the economic portfolios. And they are frustrated because they can't get them...
Spitzer's view enjoys broad support among institutional shareholders. "Excessive executive pay undermines the very principles of free enterprise," says Phil Angelides, the California state treasurer and a board member of the California Public Employees' Retirement System. He endorses recent efforts to rein in those eye-popping stock-option grants but notes that CEOs still seem to find a way to get richer at their employer's expense. Grants of restricted stock have in some cases replaced the value of options for executives. Retirement benefits and deferred-compensation packages can also amount to millions of dollars and yet remain relatively...
...reached with the Palestinian Authority. But Sharon's plan envisaged no such deal, partly because of his reluctance to resume negotiations with a body led by Yasser Arafat, and partly because there are good reasons to doubt whether the PA today has capability, much less the political will, to rein in those who would fire on Israelis. The leadership under Arafat is unlikely to see much to be gained in helping implement a plan designed explicitly to sideline them, and U.S. and Israeli officials had begun to worry in the months preceding the plan's endorsement by the White House...
...coal and 27% of its steel last year, helping drive up prices for many commodities, such as metals, by 50%. But prices have been falling for several weeks, to the delight of many. Jeffrey Sheu, spokesman for Taiwan-based bicycle maker Giant Manufacturing, applauds China's efforts to rein in the economy, because rising materials costs have eroded profit margins. Not only that, Giant, which operates three factories on the mainland and sells to Chinese consumers, hopes that tougher lending rules will prevent additional entrepreneurs from entering the business. "The bicycle industry in China is overcrowded, with too may competitors...