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...Breton is described in the AMF finding as having received a memo from an unidentified source in December 2005, warning EADS would be entering "a zone of turbulence." The memo to Breton also purportedly urged the French government to lower its 15% stake in the group before flying got rough for EADS, which would allow the state to "profit from the current value of shares, which incorporates only the good news of the last financial year." Breton responded to the Le Figaro report stressing the state's "conduct was irreproachable" at the time, and pointed out France sold no EADS...
...Pundits and leftist politicians have responded by saying that even if Breton and other government officials did not act on information that rough times were ahead for EADS, they must have known months before the public did. And in that time, Airbus executives had sold millions in stock options - though all have maintained they did so legally, and after consulting company compliance officials. Among those was Noël Forgeard, who as co-president of EADS exercised around $14 million in stock options he and his children held in March 2006 - netting capital gains of over $3 million, just three...
...palsy affect who you are today? -Spencer Navejar, Provo, UtahFreshman year in high school is a bad time to have half your face paralyzed, but it helped me develop more of a personality. You have to make fun of yourself, or else you're going to have a really rough life...
...development of more reliable and more equitable methods of evaluation. In the current admissions system, however, standardized tests will continue to serve a useful role for many colleges. Scores, although limited in their predictive power, still provide a nationally standardized benchmark against which admissions officers may quickly garner a rough idea of an applicant’s comparative academic ability. As long as admissions committees are aware of the test’s limitations and interpret scores with the applicant’s socioeconomic background in mind, considering test scores may greatly expedite what would otherwise be an unmanageably complex...
Brown is having a rough season thus far, bringing a 2-9 record (0-1 Ivy) to Cambridge. They do feature the Ivy League Rookie of the Week in Danielle Vaughan...