Word: touts
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That might warrant some different fund-raising techniques. Lacking a permanent president to hobnob with donors, Harvard may rely on other individuals to tout its merits, such as Provost Steven E. Hyman and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...brutal as Skilling's questioning got at times, Lay could be in for a harder time on the stand. Whistleblower Sherron Watkins has testified that Lay continued to tout the company to investors and employees even after she gave him dire warnings about the Enron's finances. Skilling met with Lay the same day as Watkins, but he swears the two never discussed her allegations. If Lay doesn't contradict his co-defendant, it raises the question of why he didn't bring up the issue himself with Skilling. Did he not believe Watkins? Or not trust Skilling...
...with 12 Wall Street firms forced disclosure of analyst conflicts, set aside $460 million to fund and distribute unbiased stock research to individual investors and linked analyst pay to the performance of stocks they pick. That's a lot better than the old days, when an analyst might tout stock of a so-so company purely to ingratiate himself with management...
...matter how bad the sectarian violence gets in Iraq, politicians in Washington love to tout the flowering of democracy in Saddam Hussein's former dictatorship. But not all the fruits of Iraqi democracy are to Washington's taste - the Bush Administration has reportedly told the Shi'ite bloc that dominates Iraq's elected legislature that President Bush opposes its nomination of Ibrahim al-Jaafari to a second term as Prime Minister...
...TIME poll, approval for congressional Democrats is no higher (39%) than for Republicans, and 56% of voters said they don't believe the Democrats offer a clear set of alternative policies. Democratic activists and fund raisers are putting pressure on their leaders to come up with a program to tout as an option different from the Republican agenda, the way Gingrich and G.O.P. candidates did in 1994 with their 10-point Contract with America. Few voters were aware of the particulars of the Contract, but it helped give coherence and a positive tilt to the party message. Emanuel points...