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...chief executives this spring are feeling compelled to defend their gargantuan paychecks. After a decade of unchecked growth -- during which CEO pay grew four times as fast as the income of the average worker and three times the rate of corporate profits -- executive compensation has become a hot-button issue. From investors, big and small, to public officials at every level, ceos are catching flak as never before...
...shareholders approve directors' compensation, only 8% were willing to give them similar control over their own pay. Says Edmund Pratt Jr., the recently retired CEO of Pfizer and chairman of General Motors' compensation committee: "We're making far too much of this issue. It has become the political hot button. They're comparing our pay to office boys' and the Japanese without knowing what Japanese get. When you compare executive pay with what private entrepreneurs make, or sports figures, musicians and entertainers, or even lawyers, we're kind of poor...
...ritual would begin. I would click the "on" button of the television and plant mysellf on the couch in our den. Instantaneously, I would be sucked into the animated world of Scooby and Shaggy--not to escape from Saturday morning Cartoonland until five hours later when the networks began broadcasting sports like golf and bowling...
...system, complete with color monitors, that allows professors to tap into the school's library of films, videos and laser discs. Tony Edmonds, chairman of the history department, uses the system to teach a course on the Vietnam War. "Now I can discuss the My Lai massacre, press a button and show a two-minute segment on it," he says. "I discuss the antiwar movement and pull up a segment on Abbie Hoffman." His undergraduates, children of the sound-bite era, take to the course like, well, MTV. "Of 105 students only 10 got below a B," Edmonds says. "That...
Frumpkin said at least one Democratic party leader, wearing a button supporting Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, refused to answer a voter who had asked if Jerry was the same as Edmund. Frumpkin declined to name the party leader, saying that campaign officials would handle the matter...