Word: warrens
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...position that became known as dean of undergraduate education was created in 1972, shortly after Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May finished his stint as the final Faculty member before Lewis to serve as dean of the College...
...unlike those of the workers, will be protected even if AMR goes bankrupt. Succumbing to public pressure, AMR backed off on another issue: its proposed "retention" bonuses for top executives. A flap over that cost CEO Donald Carty his job. But the executive pensions remain in place. Investing legend Warren Buffett, who has been campaigning against executive compensation that is out of line with returns to workers and shareholders, said in a recent speech that "what really gets to the public is when CEOs get rich, really rich, and they get poorer...
...that’s a paper. If you think it sounds fluffy, you’re missing the point. Admit it: when you start to really think, your brain does begin to feel like a warren, full of related pockets of thought which form a structure so beautiful and complete, it’s indescribable. John Steinbeck, speaking as himself, said, “Ideas are like rabbits,” and no one can deny...
...gain effective control of US Airways, RSA outbid by 20% the Texas Pacific Group, based in Fort Worth, a private-equity outfit with long experience investing in distressed airlines. RSA has plunged into a battered industry that has bedeviled even value-stock gurus like Warren Buffett, who once described his airline investments as "temporary insanity." Olivia Mitchell, executive director of the Pension Research Council at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, warns that for a pension fund, direct investment in such a risky business--especially when the fund manager becomes the airline chairman--"creates a slippery slope...
Sitaraman and Warren will hold a book signing at the Coop...