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  • ALL ABOARD! Message boards tear into Halliburton !!!

    01/23/2004 1:11:01 PM PST · by SierraWasp · 12 replies · 161+ views
    CBS MarketWatch.com ^ | 01/23/2004 | Shawn Langlois
    ALL ABOARD! Message boards tear into Halliburton By Shawn Langlois, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 3:55 PM ET Jan. 23, 2004 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Halliburton's boards have seen a firestorm of political rhetoric since this whole Iraq thing began, but Friday's virtual melee reached a whole new level. The catalyst hit the wires early Friday in the form of a Wall Street Journal report that two Halliburton employees took $6 million in kickbacks for awarding a Kuwaiti-based company some lucrative work in Iraq. Sure, the guilty parties were fired and Halliburton shares (HAL: news, chart, profile) rallied nearly 3 percent, etc.,...
  • Matier & Ross: Golden Plums (California budget)

    01/22/2004 5:23:50 PM PST · by calcowgirl · 1 replies · 136+ views
    SF Chronicle ^ | January 19, 2004 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross
    <p>Golden plums: For all the talk of dire budget cuts in Sacramento, there's one area that legislators don't want to touch -- the plums that grow in their own back yard.</p> <p>Those would be the spots on boards and commissions that pay members more than $100,000 a year for less-than-onerous work.</p>
  • REPUBLICANS CRYING FOUL AT LAME-DUCK MOVE

    11/20/2003 4:23:46 AM PST · by toddst · 11 replies · 154+ views
    Lexington Herald-Leader | Nov. 20, 2003 | John Cheves
    FRANKFORT - Bernie Kunkel waited years for a Republican governor who would appoint conservatives like him to state boards and commissions. He'll have to wait a while longer. With less than three weeks left in office, Democratic Gov. Paul Patton is methodically filling every seat on the more than 300 boards that help decide government policy, steer the huge bureaucracy and regulate industries, from the State Fair Board to the Executive Branch Ethics Commission. Republicans and their incoming governor, Ernie Fletcher, are crying foul. Although Patton has the authority to pack seats with anyone he chooses until Dec. 9, that-doesn't...
  • Christian Community Site - Penpals, Art, Forums, Sermons,

    11/09/2003 6:03:22 AM PST · by HolyBridge.com · 287+ views
    www.HolyBridge.com ^ | www.HolyBridge.com
    HolyBridge.com is a new Christian Community website. It is 100% free and offers free Christian Penpals, Forums, Art, Sermons, an Online Bible, and more. If you are looking for Christian fellowship, knowledge, and entertainment, then please visit HolyBridge.com and possibly find a new home on the web.