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...layoffs and cost cuts to qualify for another lifeline from the banks--themselves staggering under $1 trillion in lousy debts. Meanwhile, the corporate graveyard is crowded with foreign investors who tried to make over Japanese failures. Most recently, Merrill Lynch, which bought out securities firm Yamaichi, is beating a retreat...
...lifers for the unborn. Furthermore, they serve to remind the public of the inevitable development of a fetus into a fully formed human infant. Finally, they represent a striking challenge to all women to truly demonstrate their power to choose by selecting virtue and intellectual honesty over a cowardly retreat from shame and adversity...
Three days later, at a lush West Virginia resort where congressional Republicans were holding their annual retreat, they heard the same news. G.O.P. strategists told the lawmakers that voter rage over Enron is becoming personal, with people's fears about their own retirement exceeding their appetite for campaign reform and their anger at what the now bankrupt company did. "Many employees looked at what happened to Enron, and it scares them to death," says Ohio Congressman John Boehner, the House Republicans' point man on pension issues. This is why the biggest news out of the retreat was the package...
Despite his vacation, Griffin was able to make a special trans-continental appearance for PBHA cabinet members this past weekend at their annual retreat, held this year at a hostel in Harvard, Mass. As part of “skits and giggles night” at the retreat, a bold Griffin fan donned a creative interpretation of his signature ample head of wavy white hair and hammed it up as Steve. This happens at most retreats, says PBHA President Laura E. Clancy ’02-’03. “Steve is one point of reference...
...rest of the group’s members traveled by bus and arrived safely at the conference site. After being released from the hospital Friday night, Chyou and Lee were driven to the retreat and joined the rest of the AACF contingent...