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Some see imagination; others see ego. Either way, Andrew Stern's vision for a more aggressive labor movement persuaded his union, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, together representing 4.6 million workers, to split from the AFL-CIO. TIME's Joseph R. Szczesny asks the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief to explain the bitter divorce...
Ultimately, the two statements by the Corporation backing Summers bore only Houghton’s name, rather than revealing the 6-1 split on the board...
Switching to unmanned rockets for payload launching and a small space plane for those rare times humans are really needed would cut costs, which is why aerospace contractors have lobbied against such reform. Boeing and Lockheed Martin split roughly half the shuttle business through an Orwellian-named consortium called the United Space Alliance. It's a source of significant profit for both companies; United Space Alliance employs 6,400 contractor personnel for shuttle launches alone. Many other aerospace contractors also benefit from the space-shuttle program...
AMAZON'S STOCK PRICE HAS FALLEN 17% OVER THE PAST 12 MONTHS. WILL THERE BE BOOM TIMES AGAIN? We went public at a split-adjusted price of $1.50 a share, and it's gone to $38 a share in eight years, which is unusual performance by any measure. We focus on things that matter to customers, not the stock price, which takes care of itself. The business results generated by the company? This is by far our best year ever...
...split into three sections, and you really have to work to be in violation of any of them. Part A says a government official with access to classified information about covert personnel who intentionally exposes an operative, knowing that the U.S. "is taking affirmative measures to conceal" the operative's identity, can face up to 10 years in prison or a $50,000 fine or both. A similar section applies the same standard, but with lesser penalties, to an official who has security clearance in one area, learns the identity of a covert operative in another area, and intentionally discloses...