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- Is Macao a Losing Bet for Las Vegas Sands?
- The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel was supposed to be a 3,000-suite mega-resort, a kind of Disneyland copy of Venice, with casinos and shopping for an upscale Asian market. But now Las Vegas Sands Corp. is $10 billion in debt and sliding, its projects postponed or canceled just as the economy takes a swandive....
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
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- IMF go home: Venezuela.(a one-day general strike in Venezuela challenges the ruling party's International Monetary Fund-endorsed austerity programs)(Brief Article)
- FIFTEEN months of IMF-endorsed austerity provoked weary Venezuelans to protest this week. A one-day general strike gave the administration of President Rafael Caldera its greatest challenge in three years. But, though the strike may have cost businessmFIFTEEN months of IMF-endorsed austerity provoked weary Venezuelans to protest...
- Research articles 1997-08-09
- Govt. presents austerity plan to Congress.
- MEXICO CITY, Nov 06, 2003 (El Universal/Corporate Mexico by Internet Securities, Inc. via COMTEX) -- The federal government will propose an aggressive austerity and rationality plan to Congress that includes not granting salary increases to superior MEXICO CITY, Nov 06, 2003 (El Universal/Corporate Mexico by...
- Research articles 2003-11-11
- Cracking the Brazil nuts. (Brazil develops an austerity package and is likely to receive aid from the International Monetary Fund).
- Brazil has implemented an austerity package and will probably receive aid by the International Monetary Fund. Investors are still hesitant and will probably wait to see if the government can manage its financial policies and if the currency remains strongBrazil has implemented an austerity package and will probably receive aid...
- Research articles 1998-10-31
- The austerity agenda: have we really been bingeing?
- The party's over; now it's time to face the hangover. That is the conventional wisdom of Washington, Wall Street and the moneyed classes worldwide. The Reagan era was a collective binge by consumers and the Federal government that debilitated the economy, and the only...
- Research articles 1989-01-09
- Cut pay, stick to austerity program or be fired: Philippine leader
- MANILA, AFP — Philippine President Gloria Arroyo has warned heads of government corporations will be fired if they do not reduce their pay and implement her strict austerity program. The presidential palace said in a statement this was part of the government's effort to avoid a fiscal crisis caused...
- Research articles 2004-09-18
- Austerity & Excess: Leveraged Buyouts in the 1980s
- This paper glosses over the pitfalls of leveraged buyouts to focus on the austerity they reintroduced to corporate governance and the excesses of the dealmakers. Highly levered companies are ill suited to weather economic downturns - not an inconsequential part of the late 1980s transactions' default rate. The harsh cost...
- White papers 2001-11-29
- Democratic economics: austerity vs. jobs and justice. (Democratic Party's stand on economics)
- DEMOCRATIC ECONOMICS Austerity vs. Jobs and Justice Where do the Democrats stand on the economy? While their stump-talk reverberates with populist-style rehtoric about helping working people, most of the party's candidates have provided surprisingly few substantive suggestions for putting the economy...
- Research articles 1988-04-16
- Bankrupt Hamas government unveils austerity package
- RAMALLAH, West Bank AFP — The Hamas-led government, bankrupt and boycotted by the West, called for emergency aid to pay last month's salaries, introducing austerity measures to slash public spending. "We are hoping to receive emergency aid to overcome the Palestinian Authority's budget deficit and to pay the salaries...
- Research articles 2006-04-06
- Hungarian labour unions protest government austerity package
- BUDAPEST AFP — Several thousand labour union members have demonstrated in Budapest against a government austerity package they say requires a disproportionate sacrifice from workers. Six national unions organized the protest, just two days before parliament is set to approve a host of tax hikes that are a key...
- Research articles 2006-07-08
- EU to approve Hungary austerity plan: source
- BRUSSELS AFP — The European Commission will on Tuesday approve an austerity plan put forward by Hungary to slash its public deficit which has led to riots and calls for the government there to resign, according to an EU official. Brussels will voice support for the raft of measures presented...
- Research articles 2006-09-25
- Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity
- NOTABLE PAPERS/ARTICLESFunding Growth in an Age of Austerity; Gary Hamel and Gary Getz; Harvard Business Review, July-Aug. 2004, pp. 76-84.Want to out-innovate your competitors? Of course, but it won't happen by taking the usual steps of conducting R&D more efficiently or by increasing R&D budgets, write Hamel and Getz. Rather,...
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity
- Funding Growth in an Age of Austerity. Gary Hamel and Gary Getz; Harvard Business Review, July-Aug. 2004. pp. 76-84. Want to out-innovate your competitors? Of course, but it won't happen by taking the usual steps of conducting R&D more efficiently or by increasing R&D budgets, write Hamel and Getz....
- Research articles 2004-11-01
- Greenwich's Big-Ticket Car Show: Austerity Edition
- GREENWICHâ€"It wasn’t rain that, as usual, inhibited attendance at the annual Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. This year, austerity seemed to have taken a modest but discernible toll. There were fewer big-ticket cars and fewer luxury exhibitors. All of this is relative, however: Greenwich has been shaken by the tanking...
- Blog posts 2009-06-07
- Transfers down as austerity closes window
- English football's reputation for reckless and unsustainable spending may soon be kicked into touch following a summer of caution and restraint in the transfer market by all but one of the Premier League's 20 clubs. Transfer spending involving Premier League clubs is expected to total £450m, down 10 per cent...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Asia's richest man takes 66% pay cut
- Mukesh Ambani, Asia's richest man, who is spending about $1bn to build a lavish 27-storey house and buy his wife a luxury Airbus jet, this week gave himself a 66 per cent pay cut. In cutting his compensation to "set a personal example of moderation in executive compensation", Mr Ambani,...
- News items 2009-10-16
- Dolan fires 160; fingers regulators. (Cablevision Systems Corp. chairman Charles F. Dolan)
- In the latest austerity move triggered by the new round of cable rate rollbacks, Cablevision Systems Corp. announced layoffs and expense cutbacks to make up for the $30 million in losses expected from the new federal rules. The layoffs hit 160 pe ...
- Research articles 1994-05-16
- BRAZILIAN CONGRESS VOTE THREATENS FISCAL PACKAGE.
- RIO DE JANEIRO -- Congress dealt the government a stinging defeat when it voted down two key social security tax proposals included in a recently outlined fiscal austerity package. More such congressional defeats could compromise both the fiscal p RIO DE JANEIRO --...
- Research articles 1998-12-14
- Schwab restores match.(Frills are Back)(Charles Schwab & Company Inc.)(Brief Article)
- IN ANOTHER SIGN that Charles Schwab's yearlong austerity program has run its course, the discount giant has gone back to matching employee 401k contributions. IN ANOTHER SIGN that Charles Schwab's yearlong austerity program has run its course, the discount giant has gone back...
- Research articles 2004-02-01
- PBS takes proactive approach to sponsorship; noncommercial network, in effort to find ways to reduce reliance on federal funding, forms, marketing arm. (Public Broadcasting Service)(Brief Article)
- Noncommercial network, in effort to find ways to reduce reliance on federal funding, forms marketing arm In the new era of austerity for federally funded arts and culture programs, PBS and its affiliates are becoming more adept at pitching the ...
- Research articles 1997-05-05
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