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Apple CEO declines stock dividends worth $75 million
26 May 2012, 2:23 am
Tim Cook's unusual move to exempt himself from a new compensation program comes as boards of major companies have been scrutinized for approving excessive compensation for their CEOs. Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is saying "no thanks" to stock dividends potentially worth $75 million.
Op-Ed: Town needs consistent direction on projects
25 May 2012, 1:37 pm
In the past few years, Greenwich has spent an enormous amount of money on capital projects, most of them shepherded by people who consider themselves "conservative" on fiscal matters.
This Is How You'll Rescue Your Retirement
22 May 2012, 9:20 am
Yesterday's annual Scottish Widows Pensions Report made gloomy reading. As I've written before, the combination of inadequate savings, poor investment returns and low annuity rates has resulted in millions ...
Whitney kin TV pay ‘dirt’
21 May 2012, 12:57 am
The celebrity apocalypse has come. What’s more stomach-churning than a season of “Toddlers & Tiaras’’? More allegedly pornographic than a John Travolta rubdown? Fresh from the cemetery where drug-addled diva Whitney Houston rests fitfully comes word that her attention-starved relatives — from mother Cissy to cousin Dionne Warwick to gospel-singer pal...
Delightful travels with the thespians
18 May 2012, 1:30 pm
New Delhi, May 19 -- Age has nothing to do with it - so goes the premise of this India - set fable about a group of geriatrics with a boundless zest for life. The film is a triumph for director Madden ( Shakespeare in Love) as well as the grand ensemble of British thespians. The script is a hybrid of romance, fish-out-of-water comedy and drama. Lured by advertisements, seven English pensioners ...
Rashid Irani's review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
17 May 2012, 1:30 pm
India, May 18 -- Delightful travels with the thespiansThe Best Exotic Marigold HotelDirection: John MaddenCast: Judi Dench, Maggie SmithRating: ***1/2Age has nothing to do with it - so goes the premise of this India-set fable about a group of geriatrics with a boundless zest for life. The film is a triumph for director Madden (Shakespeare in Love) as well as the grand ensemble of British ...
Film Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
10 May 2012, 3:31 pm
This surprisingly witty and touching fable—about a group of aging Brits who “outsource” themselves to retirement in India—gets its charm and considerable zest for life from what has to be the finest cast of actors in any movie this year—or perhaps the finest in this millennium.
Together we can make Scotland better.
9 May 2012, 4:54 am
The SNP today welcomed reports in the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch website which adds more weight to the case for Scottish independence and further discredits the anti-independence parties’ efforts.
Making Scottish independence add up
2 May 2012, 2:12 pm
As the countdown to the Scottish independence vote in the autumn of 2014 draws closer, temperatures are rising fast as the debate moves to the hard-nosed economics of what will it cost. The Economist magazine recently poured gasoline onto the flames by running a map of Scotland on its cover labeled “Skintland”
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Op-Ed: Town needs consistent direction on projects - Greenwich Time
24 May 2012, 5:38 pm
these same people suddenly find themselves
penurious and, frankly, hypocritical as stewards of our money. I'd understand if these people wanted to just cut everything. I wouldn't agree, but at least it would have some intellectual consistency. It's time ...
Pensions, bonuses and county budgets - Baltimore Sun
22 May 2012, 6:52 pm
This is the season when local governments finalize their budgets for the next fiscal year, and the grousing about their
penurious circumstances is in full swing. Some are even complaining that the state's revised budget and tax plan — signed ...
This Is How You'll Rescue Your Retirement - Motley Fool UK
22 May 2012, 12:40 pm
As I've written before, the combination of inadequate savings, poor investment returns and low annuity rates has resulted in millions of pension savers looking set for a
penurious old age. And looking at the report, it's difficult to trump the words of ...
Obama’s campaign strategy, “political terrorism”? - Examiner
21 May 2012, 5:18 am
Thus appeared a very tangible sign of David Axelrod’s upcoming character-assassination, go-for-the-jugular strategy, well programmed into his team’s
penurious minds so they live by the maxim: “Do unto others who give to Romney the worst thing you can ...
Whitney kin TV pay ‘dirt’ - New York Post
21 May 2012, 12:31 am
Then it’s cool. Maybe it’s sign of the times. Or maybe these fame-mongers can’t stand that Whitney, in her downward spiral, got hordes of attention while her family suffered in
penurious silence. Truth is, handlers, toadies and hangers-on watched ...
Sorry, but SYRIZA won’t save Europe - Spiked
15 May 2012, 6:54 pm
Where once radical socialists were against capitalism because they believed in a more rational and full-on conquering of nature and production of stuff – as Sylvia Pankhurst said, we do not call for ‘
penurious thrift’ but for ‘a great production ...
Food stamp foolishness - Santa Rosa Press Gazette
8 May 2012, 11:59 am
If so, you've not taken a peek at the GOP's astoundingly
penurious budget proposal recently pasted together in a fit of ideological extremism by the party's budget guru, Rep. Paul Ryan. Of all things, GOP lawmakers hacked $8 billion from next year's food ...
