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...president, Fields shuttered a factory in Mazda's hometown of Hiroshima, slashed the white-collar payroll by 20% and tied bonuses for directors and middle managers to year-end targets. To improve Mazda's balance sheet, he wrote off a $1.3 billion pension liability. And he had all salaried workers attend a two-day off-site, at which they were told that "Mazda must change or die." Says Katsumi Yoshitake, a 10-year veteran: "We knew we were in bad shape, but it seemed abstract." At the off-site, "a lot of it was bad news, but it made...
...appropriate that the sheet of paper I’ve written my words on is soaking wet,” he said...
Padilla went on to rack up a grim but not exceptional rap sheet of adult crimes--ranging from assault to unlawful carrying of weapons to the attempted theft of a doughnut. Almost every incident includes a charge of resisting arrest or fleeing the scene. He swiped at cops with knives, fists and feet, according to court documents. In between bookings, he worked as a dishwasher or in the laundry of Chicago hotels and restaurants. In October 1991, after he and his family had moved to South Florida, he was arrested for firing his .38-cal. revolver at another driver during...
...EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION] [Thoroughly rotten] Adelphia guaranteed $3.1 billion in loans to off-balance-sheet partnerships owned by founder John Rigas' family. Some of the money was used to build the Rigases a golf course...
...AGGRESSIVE ACCOUNTING] [A little fishy] The company announced in March that it would restate its earnings for the past three years to account for the off-balance-sheet partnerships owned by the Rigas family...