Word: retainers
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...other economies. Last week, however, when parent company president Robert Jelenic demanded yet another round of dismissals, Geyer warned that further cuts might damage the paper's news content and circulation. Employees were then treated to the unusual spectacle of a chief executive being sacked for fighting to retain jobs for the rank and file. Jelenic imposed the cuts himself, reducing the news staff from a onetime high...
Although most newspapers this year will retain about 15% of their revenues as profit, a margin that many other businesses would envy, and although the most acute financial problems seem to be cyclical, many editors and analysts fear that the industry faces long-term trouble. The biggest problem is a steady decline in reader interest. In 1946, for every 100 U.S. households, there were 133 newspapers sold. Today that figure is halved. Even more worrisome is the sharp decline in reader interest among the under-30 generation, despite attention getters ranging from high-tech graphics to more coverage of rock...
...belated rush to present themselves as the champions of working people, House Democrats seized every chance to portray their Republican colleagues as lackeys of the well-to-do. These Democrats rammed through a plan that did not include any increase in the tax on gasoline but did retain regressive levies on alcoholic beverages and cigarettes. They proposed a smaller increase in Medicare premiums than the defeated pact would have. Most important, the House Democrats would have taken a whack at the rich by hiking the marginal tax rate for couples earning more than $78,400 to 33% from 28%, with...
...After reading the [election] by-laws, I resigned," said Nelson. "And even though there was a possibility that I could retain my seat, I didn't want my integrity questioned. When I was campaigning, I wasn't aware of any violations...
...Wagner said the Coop's board was doing everything in its power to keep members' rebates high. The board has the right to retain a percentage of the profits generated from sales to members, but it has declined to do so in the past few years, he said...