Word: scheming
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...real problem with Feinberg's scheme may be its reliance on the market. If we have learned anything from the financial crisis, it should be that the market can get things very, very wrong. So paying more people mostly in stock may result not in his stated goal of pay for performance but in pay for randomness. Feinberg is probably correct that his compensation structure won't hurt these firms' ability to retain top talent. Wall Streeters love to let it ride. The question is whether more people hell-bent on boosting their stock price will produce a better outcome...
...case focuses on a false employment scheme that Chirac was allegedly involved in toward the end of his time in the mayor's office from 1994-1995. Chirac and members of his City Hall staff are suspected of having created nearly 500 fictional consulting jobs for members of Chirac's conservative party - a way of paying people for political work out of public coffers. Twenty-one of these suspicious positions are cited in Simeoni's dossier. Chirac was constitutionally banned from giving testimony in the case while he was president from 1995-2007, but he admitted after leaving office that...
...hammer out concrete proposals. The method is similar to the process Pelosi went through in crafting her highly successful Six for '06 campaign that helped the Democrats retake control of the House, involving six core Democratic issues that she pledged to push legislation on if elected. Cantor's scheme also shares some DNA with the 1994 Contract with America that helped Republicans win the House. "The essentials are the same: these are the issues that are impacting Middle America that are being ignored by the majority, and if you elect us, they won't be left out," says Dick Armey...
Spiegelman’s lab had just received payment for the 2009 year when the Madoff scheme was exposed and thus was able to maintain research this year using Picower funds...
Jeffry M. Picower, an education philanthropist who invested billions in Bernard L. Madoff’s $50 billion Ponzi scheme, was found dead in his swimming pool after suffering a heart attack last Sunday—less than a year after his foundation pulled the plug on millions of dollars in promised funding for diabetes research at the Harvard Medical School and its affiliated hospitals...