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Archive for May, 2006
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 It's time to chill out By Len Butcher I am not a patient man. Of all of my faults, and I do have some, impatience tops the list. I have tried over the years to reverse this, but with no success. I might force myself for a day to have some patience, but it never goes beyond that. So it wasn’t surprising that [...]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Frequent flying ain't what it used to be By Ian Mylchreest The points just build up and you can get them for spending on just about any credit card. The customers are not, however, very happy, reports USA Today.
At least one very frequent business traveler tells the paper she simply chooses the cheapest ticket now, even though she could theoretically earn big trips with her frequent [...]
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 Beware of litigious lovers By Ian Mylchreest Hell hath no fury live a suitor scorned, which is making the matchmaking business pretty tough, reports the Los Angeles Times.
A dissatisfied customer has sued and won a suit against a high-end matchmaker in Beverly Hills. The customer was promised dates with men earning at least $1 million a year and worth at least $20 [...]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Told you so By Steve Sebelius Now that's what we're talking about.
Just a day after we criticized U.S. Sen. Harry Reid for being too timid to advance a real Democratic agenda in Congress, The Associated Press' John Solomon weighed in with a long story about Reid accepting free boxing tickets from the Nevada Athletic Commission.
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Can the new broom sweep clean? By Ian Mylchreest President George W. Bush has appointed Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry Paulson as Treasury Secretary to replace John Snow, reports the Washington Post. The hunt for a new Wall Street honcho to head up the economic portfolio has been in train for months but Paulson apparently took some persuading. Rumor last week was that the president was about to [...]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 SEC uncovers another kind of stock timing By Ian Mylchreest In recent weeks, the Wall Street Journal has been reporting on SEC investigations into the timing of options grants. It began with a particularly good run of luck for grants to senior executives at UnitedHealth, where the paper estimated that the odds of grants always being made at the stock price's low point, as seemed [...]
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Is this a tax increase? By Ian Mylchreest Tax breaks was one of the great advantages of working abroad, especially in a low-tax part of Asia like Hong Kong or Singapore. But that deal has just soured a little, reports the New York Times.
The last tax bill that went through Congress and which the President signed, took away a lot of the tax benefits [...]
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Monday, May 29, 2006 Let a pro criticize Harry Reid By Steve Sebelius It's the clash of the journalistic titans!
After our Corporate Overlord-in-Chief Sherm Frederick penned a column last week criticizing U.S. Sen. Harry Reid for being a liberal in Washington, D.C. and a conservative here in Nevada, Las Vegas Sun Editor Brian Greenspun got into the act, accusing Frederick of being wrong, and perhaps being a [...]
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Monday, May 29, 2006 Memorial Day Quick Hits By Steve Sebelius Yes, we know it's Memorial Day, and that most of you loyal readers won't be reading this until Tuesday in a post-barbecue haze, but that shall not keep us from our appointed rounds! It's time for a Weber full of Quick Hits, with our extra-special Various Things & Stuff secret sauce! Here we go!
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Monday, May 29, 2006 Remembering the fallen By Len Butcher This is Memorial Day. Weatherwise, a day I’m sure like many others at this time in your part of the country. And other than most of you having a day off that you wouldn’t normally, it’s a pretty average day. You might be sleeping in, getting ready for a picnic or trip to the beach, [...]
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