Word: threatened
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...most high-profile attempt has been the Treasury Department's requirement that banks participating in its recapitalization program make sure senior executives' pay doesn't entice them to take "unnecessary and excessive risks that threaten the value of the financial institution." What exactly that means, though, has been lobbed back to directors. And technically they've always had a duty to step in the way of anything that threatened their company's value. In fact, companies long ago thought they had figured out a way to shepherd individual interest. "Everyone thought risk-based compensation was equity in the firm," says...
...where he needs to be on the field. He’s one of the core players on our team, who has support and really works hard.” Even with a 2-0 lead, the Crimson would not let up. Freshman Tim Linden and Akpan continued to threaten the Black Bear defense, but ended up with their shots at the goal blocked. And while Maine managed seven attempted shots in the second half, the Crimson defense was stingy in not allowing a goal scored on them. Harms once again had a phenomenal game, recording his sixth shutout...
...endurance of the GOP that both of these races were so close. Obama won double-digit victories in both states, and Coleman and Smith are both milquetoast pols who did much less than McCain ever did to distance themselves from the President until his low approval ratings began to threaten their re-elections. Smith was so desperate to distance himself from the GOP that he ran ads touting his cooperation with Obama. And now Coleman has a better-than-even chance of returning to Washington, where he will surely rediscover his old party identification. It's an uninspiring but potentially...
...Wilson was caught trying to smuggle a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash from Venezuela into Argentina last year but was allowed to return to his Miami home by the Argentine authorities, where - the court found - undercover emissaries from Venezuela and Argentina, Duran among them, had tried to threaten and bribe Wilson to hush up a political scandal that threatened the leaders of both countries...
...electoral processes were exposed as flawed and anachronistic. This year the two-week run-up is letting election watchdogs detect potential problems - not just defective voting-booth technology but also the new no-match, no-vote laws that tighten voter-identification requirements at the polls but that critics say threaten to inordinately disenfranchise minority voters. A new concern is the home-foreclosure crisis, which in hard-hit states like Florida may leave thousands of voters without a valid voter address to claim. No major problems have been reported so far, but lawyers for both parties are at the ready...