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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...
Sure, it’s better to give tax cuts to people who can use them than to the ultra-rich. But our bipartisan mania for tax-slashing has real costs. In order to rein in the deficit and cut taxes simultaneously, Kerry is proposing a total spending cap on discretionary spending outside of defense and education (about 20 percent of the federal budget), instead of allowing government expenditure to remain at a stable proportion of GDP, growing at the same rate as the economy. But rising production and consumption place rising demands on our national infrastructure, which needs...
...mostly be wielded out of a new 3,000-person U.S. embassy. Officials believe delaying the transition would only further enrage Iraqis, including, critically, the country's most revered Shi'ite leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, whose support the U.S. needs more than ever as it tries to rein in the upstart al-Sadr. "June 30 is a good date," says Rend al-Rahim Francke, Iraq's diplomatic representative to the U.S. "It is long overdue...