Word: returned
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...sports, the New York Yankees won not only the World Series but Google's crown as well. They were the most searched Major League Baseball team, joining the Los Angeles Lakers for basketball and the Pittsburgh Steelers for football. Brett Favre's return to football was the biggest unretirement story of the year, dominating Lance Armstrong's return to the Tour De France as well as similar comebacks by boxer Floyd Mayweather and tennis star Kim Clijsters...
...nothing wrong if one believes the rules and practices of corporate governance are adequate to assure reasonable compensation practices. But can anyone maintain they do, given the undemocratic ways in which corporate directors are chosen and elected, and the myriad examples of executive compensation perversely related to shareholder return...
Many thought a silver lining of last year’s financial crisis—or from the populist rage that flared against Wall Street excess and profits from leverage, not creativity—would be that earnings differentials would return from obscene to merely enormous levels, if not to the very generous multiples that had long been adequate to fuel a vibrant economy. Well, the hyper-bonuses are back—astonishingly having been made even easier to achieve with taxpayers socializing the downside risks. And the crisis? What crisis...
...many Afghans, who had hoped for - and who had believed in - previous statements by world leaders that the international community was in it for the long haul. Even if development projects continue long after, fear is rife that the Taliban will simply wait out the surge, only to return re-energized and triumphant once the numbers of international forces have dwindled, even if it is only a return to present numbers. As for those Afghans sitting on the fence, they now see less security in joining the government's side, which may once again be abandoned when the U.S. focuses...
...past eight years, foreign experts have been tasked with similar, expensive development objectives with little return. There needs to be a renewed commitment toward enabling Afghans to do the work themselves, without having to rely on foreign advisers. That will take more than 18 months and require substantial investment not just in facilities and pilot projects, but also in actual and widespread training and education. Special representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Afghanistan Kai Eide emphasized in a frank talk with journalists on Tuesday that the foreign community should focus on a transition strategy, rather than an exit strategy...