IOWA  PROF. CATCHES CEO'S AND OTHER ITEMS

BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 1/15

Burrows (64-65)

University of Iowa Professor is making CEO's squirm. He spends one day a week helping investors find out why their returns have been hampered. He has strategies to help uncover

CEO's ability to back date investments. Thus, they can buy low and sell high AFTER the stock market has closed. He advises investors, and assist plaintiffs lawyers.

His name is Erik Lie. Dr. Lie is from Norway and is a full time professor at the Hawkeye

university.

Herbst (71)

The Dept. of Labor is now establishing a list of documented unskilled workers to help industry. They make about $9.00 an hour.

Gross (75)

New med to fight cancer. As new cancers emerge that are more resistant. There is a new med

to introduce wimp cancer cells that build the resistant in the human.

New research into diet drugs that avoid troubling the heart.

Improving helmets will help footballers and hockey players from brain injury.

There are new critters that help humans have babies.

Plug in electric cars will not  jam the grid.

Welch (92)

You want to avoid a union or a strike. It is up to the integrity of the CEO.

Cooper (23)

Don't worry be happy. The slide of the dollar GRADUALLY will gives us leverage in trade.

In fact, the U.S. dollar may be undervalued.

For the opposite side, see FINANCIALSENSE.COM/

Hindo (36)

You get a present that you don't like or you buy something and you change your mind. About 6%

of all merchandize is returned. Here what retailers do. Some returns are just fine along with the packaging. So they put it back on the shelf. Others that have just a tarnished veneer go in the remainder bin. Other items are sold in big lots to a second sale store and many materials go to

E-bay. The rest is given as a tax deduction to Goodwill or related.

Barrett (51-54)

For the most part, Muslims in America is a success story. They have assimilated and are prospering. Many are in the professions, management, and related. They became alarmed after 9-11. They feel they have become the enemy. They are not. This story is NOT played out in other industrialized democracies as in the USA. Muslim means mainstream.

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Johnson (50-54)

We are losing the info-war. Numerous Arabic stations are winning the hearts and minds of

of the MIddle East. The last blunder was the termination of Saddam Hussein

His hanging

recorded on a movie phone was monstrous. To add to that, the war has gone badly.

Will(72)

The Dean of Conservatism is wary  of adding new military forces to Iraq.