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Though only a trickle so far, the figures suggest a wave of hefty pay raises, well ahead of last year, and mostly based on the new reap-as-ye-shall-sow yardstick. "Shareholder activism has had a huge impact on executive pay," says Michael Davis of Towers Perrin, a New York City management-consulting firm...
...treaty signed in Paris last week hardly deserves a standing ovation. Bosnia's awkward division fails to compensate the war's victims and could sow the seeds of the new state's future dismemberment. But while the plan may not be perfect, it is bold, imaginative and offers perhaps the best peace one could hope for in Bosnia's far from perfect world. That seems somehow fitting, if only in the sense that the deal's virtues and its flaws suggest the character of the man who did so much to craft...
...address, Pusey accused both radicals and the moderates who supported them of "distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust...
...said her amendment would add $150 million a year to the $1.94 billion for child care, but Democrats called it a drop in the bucket. Quoting former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), paraphrasing former Texas governor Ann Richards said: "You can put lipstick on a sow and call it Monique but it's still...
...these arrangements can also sow tension and slow progress, because they tend to unite friends and foes alike in potentially uncomfortable situations. Bell Atlantic and U S West are building separate electronic highways, for example, even as the two firms are allied in a project to provide wireless phone service. Time Warner and TCI are archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share...