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“[The Financial Accounting Standards Board—the group that sets American accounting standards—has voted to examine stock options as it grapples with pressure from investors to reform option accounting.] This is monumental, ... This sets in motion the move to expense stock options. A while back this would have been a death wish on the part of the FASB but now the environment has changed.”
David Hawkins
“I think the most obvious reason [private schools are abandoning rank at a higher rate than public schools] is because private schools tend to be small, and related to that, the non-parochial private schools tend to be pretty competitive.”
“We favor getting ethanol production up. But we obviously favor a cleaner process. We need large cuts in global warming emissions from transportation. It's not good enough for ethanol to simply be no worse than gasoline.”
“What this report shows is that with careful government regulation, companies can lower the pollution coming from power plants smokestacks - and we should be doing this with greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, too.”
“We were getting hits tonight. The bottom line was we were getting runners on base then not getting production from guys when we needed it.”
“I think this is a good example of why many colleges and high schools have de-emphasized class rank. It's part of the education process that doesn't involve education.”
“In the big scheme, this is absolutely in stride with what else is going on around the country. (This type of technology) holds a great deal of promise of easing the workload on counselors and admissions officers and easing the application process.”
“I wish I were more optimistic of our ability to get a broad slice of the public to understand this and be motivated to act.”
