Word: revolted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...then he’d have a faculty revolt on his hands and more years like this one—with concrete progress overshadowed by shocking failure...
With Spitzer and, belatedly, the Securities and Exchange Commission pressing for reforms, analysts' opinions may again mean something someday. In the trove of e-mails that Spitzer uncovered are hints of revolt among analysts who would welcome an environment in which they were encouraged to put the client first. But that's for later. For now, investors should seek research outside the big brokerages--including among the analysts who have fled them...
...Asian stock investors are starting to demand more respect, though. In Japan, apparel company Tokyo Style is fending off a rare revolt by shareholders who want a bigger dividend from the company's $1 billion cash reserve. Looking to boost investor confidence in the market, Chinese regulators have launched a campaign against embezzlement by listed companies. In Malaysia, private investors have established the Minority Shareholders Watchdog Group, and a similar body has been formed in Taiwan...
...recalls former trainer Yang Dong Su. "There was a lot of tension." On the morning of Aug. 23, 1971, the recruits snapped. One of them walked into the camp commander's office with a laundry basket, pulled out a crowbar and drove it through the commander's forehead. The revolt quickly turned into a massacre, with 17 guards gunned down or drowned trying to flee the island. Yang took a bullet through the neck but survived...
...Terror, Nepal's 10,000 Maoist guerrillas have decided, is the key to power. When they first launched their revolt six years ago, the rebels took care to elicit public support with popular campaigns against corrupt officials, alcoholism, drug use and chauvinism. Dismissed by the outside world as poorly armed curios from another time, their message that the elected government had succeeded only in lining its own pockets since the end of absolute monarchy in 1990 resonated in the Himalayan hills. But lately, the "people's rebels" have embarked on an altogether bloodier course, inspired?according to a former rebel...