By: Christian Science Monitor
the Monitor's Editorial Board
After 30 years, one of America's most intractable social problems is finally turning around: Overall homelessness has fallen 12 percent since 2005. Thanks goes to a eureka insight, followed by a coordinated nationwide push. The...
By: Investor's Business Daily
GARY M. STERN
You're eating lunch at a restaurant when you overhear two colleagues loudly discussing privileged, confidential information about a client. In response to this action, do you: a) do nothing, b) confront them and explain why it's...
By: Newhouse News Service
By STEPHEN KOFF.
Stephen Koff is Washington bureau chief for The Plain Dealer of Cleveland. He can be contacted at
skoff@plaind.com
WASHINGTON When the politically inclined refer to their respective parties in the next two weeks, they really do mean party as in soiree, late-night bash, cocktail reception and shindig.
Congress and state legislatures have...
By: USA TODAY
Tony Perrottet
H
owever the athletes perform in the coming days, the Beijing Olympics is well on its way to breaking a world record in one dubious area: doping scandals. The woeful tally was piling up even before the opening ceremonies, with...
By: States News Service
States News Service
The following information was released by the University of California - Berkeley:
Corporate misconduct can be the stuff of high drama. But prevailing theory has it that "settling up," the process of meting out consequences for...
By: Investor's Business Daily
STEVE WATKINS
10 It's not easy to do the right thing all the time. Do you tell the client a product is being discontinued or do you make the sale anyway? Set up your own ethical framework, and choices become clear.
By: Investor's Business Daily
Morey Stettner
Hans Gieskes ran a $1.3 billion company. But for nearly a decade he has rued a $180 business decision.
As CEO of Lexis-Nexis Group in 1999, Gieskes was reviewing a senior executive's expense report. After noticing that the...
By: The Washington Times
By Charles Schumer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
A free press is the lifeblood of our democracy. Without smart journalists willing to investigate tough stories, articles about abuse of power in government and corruption in business might go unreported and unaddressed.
But...
By: The Jerusalem Post
Asher Meir
Copyright 2008 The Jerusalem Post
By: Newsday (New York)
The news on housing is definitely not good. Home sale prices in the nation's 20 biggest markets dropped 15.3 percent in April, compared to a year earlier. Median sale prices tumbled about 6 percent in Nassau County and 7 percent...
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