Coca-Cola to Expense Stock Options in Financial Reports
Coca-Cola will begin treating future stock option grants as employee compensation and list them as expenses. The move follows pressure from investors as lawmakers failed to require such treatment in the Senate. Coca-Cola joins Boeing Co and Winn-Dixie in adopting the practice, signaling voluntary reform amid ongoing political hesitancy.
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Coke
Washington
U.S. Senate
Enron
Coca-Cola
Winn- Dixie Stories
Boeing Co
Senate
Congress
Bush
Boeing
Winn-Dixie
July 15 Highlight History and Founding Dates
Today marks July 15 the 196th day of 2002 with 169 days remaining. Highlights recall Nixon’s 1971 China visit plan and notable anniversaries: Boeing founded in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products in Seattle and Truman’s 1948 nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
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Nixon
People’s Republic of China
Boeing Co
Pacific Aero Products
Seattle
Harry S. Truman
Philadelphia
Political pressure and violent verdicts in Pakistan reach headlines
SEC chairman Harvey Pitt urges moving on from the Harken case while a NBC interview questions the Bush administration on releasing the file. Graffiti on Karachi Hyderabad barriers proclaims death in advance of Daniel Pearl kidnapping trial verdict. Dow Jones mourns Pearl as court convicts militants and sentences one to death.
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SEC
Harvey Pitt
NBC
Bush
Harken Energy
Harken
America
Karachi
Hyderabad
Pakistan
Wall Street Journal
Daniel Pearl
Danny Pearl
Steven Goldstein
Dow Jones & Co
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Ninth-Grade Center Proposal Voting Buzz Questioned
Community buzz questions how to vote on the ninth-grade center proposal. Voters express undecided stance before the election and seek guidance on the ballot option and public comment process.
Global warming and its consequences urge action now
Paul Epstein argues warming intensifies the water cycle leading to heavier rains and droughts, expanding pests and pollen, and threatens forests. He urges drastic fossil fuel cuts of 70 to 80 percent and rapid adoption of solar wind and other clean technologies with policies and funds to accelerate the transition. He calls for U S reentry into global climate cooperation and a multi billion clean development fund to spur change.
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Y Paul R. Epstein Roughts
Earth
Rockies
Alaska
United States
Spanglish debate mocks Don Quixote translation issue
A column surveys Ilan Stavans a la Vanguardia Spanglish translation of Don Quixote. It argues Spanglish is informal playful code not a real language and warns against elevating it to legitimacy. The piece, by a Hispanic writer in the United States, critiques bilingual usage and language identity.
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de la Mancha
Ilan Stavans
Amherst College
Massachusetts
la Vanguardia
Spain
Caspohien
Stavans
Spanglish
United States
Books on war memory and gender reform in review
A reader discusses Eva Nixon’s Delayed Manila about wartime internment and liberation, Gore Vidal’s Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace, Sojourners and State Magazine quotes, and reviews Linda Kerber No Constitutional Right to the Ladies and Marilyn Holt Linoleum Better Babies & The Modern Farm Woman 1890 1930. The piece notes Nixon’s age, postwar missions in India, and Holt’s study of Progressive Era farm women.
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Martin
Gracia Burnham
Wichita
Philippines
Manila
Eva Anna Nixon
Eva
India
Pearl Harbor
Manila Bay
Santo Tomas University
First Cavalry Division
St. Tomas
U.S
Elvin “Davy” Crockett
Nixon
Gore Vidal
N.Y
Linda K. Kerber
Marilyn Irvin Holt
Abilene
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King Features Syndicate
Jim Wallis
Sojourners Magazine
Colin L. Powell
State Magazine
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