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Although Ezra, the team's second seeded player, remains on the injured list due to tendon and ligament damage in his playing wrist, the team proved its depth on Sunday, by beating arch rival Princeton 6-3. Ezra's absence made every player shift up one seed...
...move that some considered a slap on the wrist, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed civil charges against Orange County, its board of supervisors and its two top financial officials. The sec cited fraud, misrepresentation and a failure to disclose key information in the sale of 11 highly risky bond issues, but the agency did not seek financial penalties. The county filed for bankruptcy 13 months...
...everything went according to plan. During a match, Ezra tore a tendon in his playing hand wrist and is not sure when he will be able to play again or if he will be ready to play in this weekend's crucial matchup against Princeton...
...employer has been a more in-your-face foe of OSHA than UPS. Last month the company joined a coalition of 250 business and trade groups that stifled OSHA's attempts to develop a standard aimed at reducing the incidence of conditions like carpal-tunnel syndrome, an inflammatory wrist ailment triggered by repetitive motion. The victory was won even before the agency had a chance to issue the proposed standards for discussion. UPS called the regulations "intrusive, expensive [and] paperwork producing" in an influential letter to House members. The Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan research group that monitored...
...crucial decision. After months of wrangling on a list of complaints brought against him by Democrats, the 10-member panel, which is evenly divided between the two parties, had settled on a good news/bad news outcome. By a unanimous vote, it cleared Gingrich of three charges and slapped his wrist on three others. And of the $4.5 million advance for his recent book that he accepted, then declined, from the publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, a media magnate with magnate-style business before Congress, the committee declared it unseemly but within the rules...