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		<title><![CDATA[7 Best Annuities to Guarantee Income for Life]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Receiving a monthly check from the day you retire until the day you die sounds mighty appealing. But signing up for an immediate annuity also means locking up your money with an insurer for decades. How can you be certain the company will still be around? Here are seven of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Schering CEO Hassan's Merck Payout Is Millions Greater Than WSJ Thinks It Is]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal notes today that in the merger of Merck and Schering-Plough, CEO Fred Hassan "would receive an exit payout of $17.7 million, pension benefits of $13.2 million and medical benefits valued at $130,750." That's a total of about $31 million. But a closer look at the SEC...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 08:07:20 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Does J&J's Move on Remicade Pact Threaten Schering CEO Hassan's $51 Mil. Merger Payout?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Johnson & Johnson filed with an arbitrator to unravel its Remicade distribution agreement with Schering-Plough, in light of the latter's merger with Merck. Schering argues there is no change of control in the agreement, a move which may threaten Schering CEO Fred Hassan's $51 million merger payout. by Jim Edwards]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 08:09:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gilead Deal Gives CV Therapeutics CEO $8.4 Million Payday Despite Lack of Profits]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gilead's $1.4 billion takeover of CV Therapeutics was a good deal for one man: CVT CEO Louis G. Lange, who picks up an $8.4 million change-of-control bonus in the pact, according to a CVT filing with the SEC.    It's a particularly good deal considering that CVT hasn't...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:33:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Olivia Tong - Bank of America/Merrill Lynch. Olivia Tong - Bank of America/Merrill Lynch  Margins were a lot better than I&#8217;d expected and I understand the selling expense portion. Can you provide a little bit more color on...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why Pay More to Execs Who Fail? | BTalk Australia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[(13min 23) Around the world executive pay has become a contentious issue this year. Itâ€™s difficult to accept a high CEO salary from a bank thatâ€™s being bailed out with public money. Itâ€™s even harder to see a sizeable bonus being given to the head of a company that hasnâ€™t...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:36:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In Defense of the U.S. Taxpayer: End Deferred Compensation and Its Tax Subsidy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roger Ehrenberg submits:  In my earlier post on bailed-out banker pay, I argued that we need a simplified compensation regime that more closely aligns corporate managements with their shareholders:  The whole issue of executive compensation - both on and off Wall Street - needs a redo. I have...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[National City: Another Tale of CEO Error and Big Payouts]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[National City Bank survived the Civil War, the Great Depression, the World Wars Â and the demise and comeback of Cleveland. But it couldn't withstand the decisions made over the past decade by its CEOs who stand to gainÂ millions in golden parachutes.    Once a solid, trusted bank, National...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:31:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Eli Lilly Waved Goodbye to $3.1 Billion]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eli Lilly employed a technical accounting term to describe the $1.4 billion Zyprexa settlement as "not-meaningful." While the payout to states over lawsuits that allege the drug was mismarketed is obviously very meaningful -- the company reported a net loss of $465.6 million this quarter -- the term highlights the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:49:23 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pension Payout Puzzle]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your employer offer a traditional defined benefit pension plan that guarantees you a monthly pension payment for life? If so, congratulations are in order - such plans are becoming scarce these days. The trend toward 401ks, 403bs and other defined contribution plans means that more and more workers must...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[US denies ransom payout for hostage release: ambassador]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BOGOTA AFP &#8212; The United States government paid nothing for the release this week of 15 hostages held by leftist guerrillas in the Colombian jungle, the US ambassador to Bogota said on Friday.  Ambassador William Brownfield issued the denial in response to a radio report that the daring rescue...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ex-NYSE chief can keep 100-million-dollar payout: court]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK AFP &#8212; An appeals court Tuesday gave former New York Stock Exchange NYSE chief Richard Grasso a total victory by dismissing all claims seeking reimbursement of a contested 100-million-dollar severance payout.  A mid-level appeals court in Albany, New York, said the state attorney general's authority ended when...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK AP - Some rewards cards will pay you cash, but often there's a ceiling on the maximum payout each year. Other cards promise points for every purchase, but they may expire after just a year. Still others reward some purchases, such as gasoline or travel, far more than...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[NWA ups payout for Steenland if he stays through Delta deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINNEAPOLIS -- Northwest Airlines said it would boost the payout for Chief Executive Doug Steenland if he stays until the carrier finishes its combination with Delta Air Lines.   The new agreement also takes away a financial incentive for Steenland to leave in June.   Northwest added another...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Poll: CEO Payouts in a Bad Year?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poll: CEO Payouts in a Bad Year?We all Grow togetherA good sntiment when applied in an organization by teh leadership.  Part of the problem is that CEO's and their management team rarely push down teh incentive compensation plan in structure to the individuals trying to grow teh business. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:54:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Target CEO Pay: One Comp Formula That Works]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/retail/100024/target-ceo-pay-one-comp-formula-that-works/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Executive pay has become such an easy target these days -- not just for business journalists but all three presidential candidates -- that it's easy to lose sight of what really goes into the final compensation figure that shows up in all the headlines. Case in point was last week's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:34:22 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Poll: CEO Payouts in a Bad Year?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ethics/?p=138]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The news is filled with stories of CEOs receiving huge payouts. The news is also filled with stories of companies performing poorly in the fragile economy. When you add the two together, the sum often equals bad P.R. for the CEO.    But is this wrong? Should a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Yale To Increase Endowment Payout to Expand Access and Advance Science.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5243/is_200801/ai_n25238587]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-8 January 2008-Yale University: Yale To Increase  Endowment Payout to Expand Access and Advance ScienceC1994-2008 M2  COMMUNICATIONS LTD     RDATE:08012008     New Haven, Conn. -- Yale will increase its endowment payout by more  than one-third in the upcoming fiscal year,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20080104/ai_n21202698]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Calendar   College   WOMEN'S BASKETBALL   Kansas at Xavier, 5 p.m.   Amateur   HOCKEY   Southern Minnesota at Topeka RoadRunners, 7:05 p.m.   High school   BOYS BASKETBALL   Hayden at Manhattan, 7:45 p.m.   Washburn Rural at...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4179/is_20080104/ai_n21202715]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Calendar   College   WOMEN'S BASKETBALL   Kansas at Xavier, 5 p.m.   Amateur   HOCKEY   Southern Minnesota at Topeka RoadRunners, 7:05 p.m.   High school   BOYS BASKETBALL   Hayden at Manhattan, 7:45 p.m.   Washburn Rural at...]]></description>
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