Word: retainers
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Also, the company indicated in its IPO filing that the Pritzker family plans to retain control of the company through the issuance of two classes of shares, where family members will hold special Class B shares that entitle them to have 10 times the number of votes than those allowed by common shares. Indeed, the filing warns investors that "the concentrated control will limit your ability to influence corporate matters, and the interests of the Pritzker family business interests may not coincide with our interests or your interests...
...better option than layoffs, reducing hours continues to ask the lowest-paid workers at Harvard to bear an inequitable share of the financial burden. Staffers are physically strained by the work, and financially strained by the reduction in pay. Although hours reductions are preferable to layoffs because workers retain health benefits along with their continued paychecks, cutting the hours of people who already struggle to make ends meet circumvents the successes of the 2001 Living Wage Campaign. Therefore, although it is possible to see hour reductions as a win for workers, we must not accept them as a permanent solution...
...questions, has often tacked to the left to preserve her coalition. She has said that she would prefer to govern with the FDP, but that would recast the Social Democrats as formidable opponents, determined to torpedo the tax-cutting agenda the FDP would demand. Westerwelle fears she plans to retain her current partners instead. "That makes me angry, not for me, but for Germany," he told the German daily, Bild. (Read: "Busting Out: German Pol Plays the Cleavage Card...
That suggests a continuation of current policies such as the cooler relationship with Moscow established since the era of cozy amity between Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Vladimir Putin. Westerwelle argues that Germany needs to retain its nuclear power capabilities until it has built up alternative domestic energy supplies so it can break its reliance on Russian gas. "If we don't want to be blackmailed then we have to diversify." (See pictures of Putin on vacation...
...Strapped for cash, Florida, Massachusetts and Maryland eliminated their annual sales-tax holidays--periods in August when customers can buy items like clothing and school supplies tax-free. While critics argue that the consumer savings would have stimulated the economy, the states say their ailing budgets desperately need to retain the millions in tax revenue...