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		<title><![CDATA[Boardroom Clean-Up Needs to be More Than Box-Ticking]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Marks & Spencer at odds with its shareholders over pay and combining the chairman and chief-executive rolesÂ -- and with the chairman apparently at odds with his senior non-execÂ -- the retailer again offers evidence that the corporate governance code is not working perfectly.    But revising it for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:04:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Masters of the Boardroom]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five Masters of the BoardroomRE: Five Masters of the BoardroomInteresting. It is amazing that with this type of money and shareholders' interest at stake to say the least, worker's compensation and basic life long goals and career, we are exuming executive responsability and accountability. What's wrong with parenting,  and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lee McQueen tastes victory in &#39;The Apprentice&#39;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Lee McQueen, a 30-year-old recruitment sales manager, was declared the winner of the BBC reality show "The Apprentice".  McQueen, the son of a milkman, was the only candidate not to have been questioned in the boardroom through the duration of the show, and was chosen by...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Lee McQueen nabs victory in &#39;The Apprentice&#39;]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON AFP &#8212; Lee McQueen, a 30-year-old recruitment sales manager, was declared the winner of the British version of "The Apprentice" television show on Wednesday evening.  McQueen, the son of a milkman, was the only candidate not to have been questioned in the boardroom through the duration of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reds must keep focus in face of boardroom turmoil: Benitez]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIVERPOOL, England AFP &#8212; Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez has insisted he will not be distracted by the boardroom turmoil engulfing the club as he prepares for a run of four matches that could make or break his season.  Sunday's Merseyside derby with Everton is to be followed by the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minority representation on corporate boards has improved in the past four decades, but blacks remain absent from most of them, reports Black Enterprise in its February issue. Its survey of the 250 largest corporations by annual revenue identified 197 black directors at those companies. But 16 serve on three or...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bentonville Clarion Hotel and Convention Center  211 S.E. Walton Ave.  Bentonville, AR 72712  Jason Moll  Sales Director  (479) 464-4600  J_moll@alltel.net  www.bentonvilleclairon.com  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]Bentonville Clarion Hotel and Convention Center  ROOM            ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Black economic power policies under fire in South Africa]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG AFP &#8212; An admission by South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel that Black Economic Empowerment needs an overhaul has handed fuel to critics who say the flagship policy has only benefited an elite.  BEE was drawn up by the African National Congress government soon after it took power...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Planar Announces New 57-inch Direct-View LCD Display; Professional Grade m57L Designed for Demanding Control Room, Corporate Boardroom and Digital Signage Applications.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-19 March 2007-Planar Systems, Inc: Planar Announces  New 57-inch Direct-View LCD Display; Professional Grade m57L Designed  for Demanding Control Room, Corporate Boardroom and Digital Signage  ApplicationsC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:19032007    London, UK. - Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLNR), a worldwide...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Capitalia chief turns tables on boardroom coup]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROME AFP &#8212; Matteo Arpe, chief executive of Italian banking group Capitalia and widely credited with boosting the bank's performance in the last five years, has fought off a bid to remove him from his post.  Italian news agency reports said shareholders, including Dutch bank ABN Amro, with a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[World Cup in balance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rugby union: Rob Andrew believes England's chances of success at the World Cups in 2011 and 2015 could depend greatly on what happens in the boardrooms at Twickenham and Premier Rugby over the next six months.  The Rugby Football Union are conducting a widespread structural review ( designed to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe cricketer Vermeulen's arson trial deferred]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HARARE AFP &#8212; The trial of former Test player Mark Vermeulen, charged with arson attacks on the Zimbabwe cricket association's boardroom and training academy, has been adjourned after the prosecution failed to produce vital video evidence. The 27-year-old batsman, who played the last of his eight Test matches in 2004,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Organic To Go.(Today's special)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organic To Go is a USDA certified organic fast-casual cafe and  corporate meal catering company. It provides all-natural and organic  meals that are available for takeout and delivery. Organic To Go is  passionate about delivering" clean," delicious food to  boardrooms and desktops everywhere. Each sandwich, soup,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Executives get to savour a moving experience.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Ben Sandilands    Aug 02, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) --  Australian executives can have private meetings while travelling. When  travelling by train, private meetings can be held in the chairman's  carriage, which can be coupled to transcontinental trains. ...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trump to fire on west coast.(Donald Trump returns to National Broadcasting Company Inc. while planning on 'The Apprentice')(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NBC is picking up The Apprentice--and moving it to Southern  California. The show has been picked up for a sixth cycle, which will be  based outside of New York City for the first time.      Donald Trump will return to the boardroom and executive-produce...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Inside the Boardroom]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[York University professor Richard Leblanc gained unprecedented access to the boardrooms of North America's most powerful companies to complete his five-year study of how boards really work. The results of the study are reviewed in his new book, Inside the Boardroom--How boards really work and the coming revolution in corporate...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[May the best woman win]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmusa/is_200505/ai_n14736268]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump will definitely be hiring a woman as his new Apprentice.  "Book smart" Kendra Todd, 26, with a degree in linguistics from the University of Florida, and "street smart" Tana Goertz, 27, top saleswoman in the Mary Kay cosmetics organization, will find out tonight on NBC in a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Management specialists decry Trump's firing of team player.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Diane E. Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business  News    Oct. 3--"You're fired!"    Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has made those two words among the  most  famous -- and most feared -- in the English lexicon.    But...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kerry economic adviser seeks to reduce gender bias in British boardrooms.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Helia Ebrahimi, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight  Ridder/Tribune Business News    Sep. 19--She was the highest-ranking woman in the Clinton  administration  and is now an economic adviser to Democratic  presidential hopeful John Kerry.  Yet Laura Tyson, head of the London ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Determining the Right Growth Strategy-Organic Vs. Acquisitive]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an extra push from the collapse of previously celebrated serial acquirers such as WorldCom Inc., Conseco Inc. and Tyco International Ltd., the pendulum has rapidly swung to a far more conservative view of M&A as a growth tool than existed just a few years ago. This is especially true...]]></description>
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