Since 1978 it had barred the Internal Revenue Service from issuing regulations covering "nonqualified" deferred comp.
It is not the ability of the employer to direct that it should be comp time.
Charles Yi, 62, stands accused of underreporting the number of employees on his payroll as a way of reducing his workers' comp premiums.
If you were already in the top quartile of high-paid plutocrats, your comp nearly doubled.
In addition to Europe, Japan and Canada also showed negative comp sales growth.
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However, the negative impact of higher commodity costs are positively offset by an increase in comparable restaurant sales (or comp sales).
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The result of this is that they sell more units (of product) for less money, and this adversely impacts comp store sales.
My 11 year old attends the local comp (8.15am start).
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Urban had disclosed a meager sales growth of 6% in its Q3 sales, with its major brands Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie registering flat and negative 7% comp sales respectively.
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Yes, there were plenty of headline-driven ups and downs, but for the week the Dow ended essentially flat, the SPX was off -0.2%, and the Nasdaq Comp gave up -0.1%.
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The SPX registered a -1.5% loss and the Dow and Nasdaq Comp were both off -1.8%.
The Nasdaq Composite (COMP) shed 2.6%, while the Russell 2000 Index dropped 2.3% last week.
Boards routinely cite the need to hire the best and the brightest, noting that they must jack up comp to remain competitive.
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Tech was particularly weak, with the Nasdaq Comp off -0.74%.
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For the week, the SPX and Dow both suffered -2.1% losses, and the Nasdaq Comp performed the poorest, off -2.7%.
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Putting current CEOs on a comp committee generally does lead to much higher comp for the management team.
John Chambers has got to go and his Comp Committee should accompany him.
Even without any reinsurance, workers' comp is an actuarial monster.
The Dow had its second weekly decline, but barely, falling -0.1%, and the Nasdaq Comp remained near 12-year highs, although notching a fractional weekly loss.
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The Dow and Nasdaq Comp were both down -0.2% and the SPX off -0.3%.
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Comp store sales were down 1.4% overall, flat for the U.S. market and down 6.4% for international.
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Comp store sales were down 4.6% from a year ago, including a 5.5% drop in domestic same-store sales.
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Comp store sales were down 0.3%, including a 0.3% increase in the U.S., and a 1.5% drop internationally.
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Comp store sales were up 0.4% in international outlets, but down 2.4% domestically.
Luckily, Delta rerouted me out the next day and gave me a hotel coupon to comp my room for the night.
However, because of the skills shortage, "we're tending to want to pay them for overtime rather than with comp time, " he adds.
The company said it now sees Q4 comp stores down 4% to 7%, with full year comp store sales off between 7.5% and 9%.
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Comp store sales were down 2.8% from a year ago, reflecting a 2.7% drop in domestic stores, and a 3.2% decline in international locations.
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