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...from tarnishing its New Economy image. Enron therefore transferred the investments to shell companies with names like “Raptor,” selling them Enron stock in exchange for IOU’s. Since 3 percent of the companies belonged to outsiders—whose investments, to sweeten the deal, were insured against loss—the companies wouldn’t be considered part of Enron and losses on the risky investments wouldn’t show up on Enron’s income statements...
...Naturalization Service sent around a memo last week saying any interviewees in the country illegally can be held on immigration charges. The day after eight former high-ranking FBI officials attacked the effectiveness of the program in a front-page Washington Post article, the Justice Department moved to sweeten the pot. It announced the "Responsible Cooperators Program," which offers fast-track naturalization and, ultimately, the possibility of citizenship to foreigners, including illegal immigrants, who provide information that leads to the apprehension of terrorists...
...convince the schools to pack their bags for Allston, the University must be willing to make these Cambridge liabilities into Allston incentives by guaranteeing enough money to make an attractive Allston campus a reality. Brand new buildings, expanded working and living space and a lush, attractive campus would sweeten the bitter pill of moving to a new home. Every month that is lost before the relocation decision is made hinders University planners; it is difficult for schools to make progress on development plans if they do not know where they’ll be five years down the road...
...Mark Thompson: The whole missile defense architecture is conceptual at this point; it doesn't actually exist. President Bush wants the Russians to accept the principle of building such a system, and he may be prepared to sweeten the kitty by offering sharp reductions in each side's nuclear arsenals. But the details of that proposal will wait for the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review, due this fall at the earliest...
...bonuses and must sit down with a supervisor to draft a plan for performing better. Salvaging such workers is only prudent, Accenture's Jensen notes, because "it is the 25th man off the bench who may win the baseball game for you." For bench warmers who can't sweeten their swings or improve their fielding, though, the next steps are a severance package and a swift exit from the roster...