There's a loophole in the law for performance-based pay (like options), but the law still stands as a stark statement about pay equity.
In any event the sin in corporate pay is not so much its magnitude as the fact that it is often completely decoupled from performance, as Harvard law professor Lucian Bebchuk has documented.
Mr. Law's performance gains straight-line intensity as his character grows ever more desperate.
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Between 2002 and 2010, Colombia recovered its standing in the international community thanks to remarkable improvements in our domestic policy, not just in security matters, but also the rule of law, economic performance and social policy.
And, when a registered investment advisor charges performance-based compensation, by law, the advisor must make a specific disclosure to the client.
This deal avoids the possible legislative fight through privately negotiated terms, which could set the stage for either similar deals in the future or for Congress to side with the record labels and require the payment of performance royalties for sound recordings by law.
While many infractions are minor, some involve issues like fund insiders' failure to disclose personal trades, as required by law, which can compromise fund performance.
In bankruptcy proceedings, it is against Federal law to obtain higher wages when performance pay is nil for those leading a much more difficult company to manage.
Previous hearings, including a joint congressional probe, have focused on the performance of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement services, particularly the CIA and the FBI.
An activity is a personal service activity if it involves the performance of personal services in areas like health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts and consulting.
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"For more than a decade, there has been widespread illegal use of anabolic steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs, in violation of federal law and baseball policy, " Mitchell told reporters in New York Thursday.
American law has banned foreign assistance for the direct performance of abortions since 1973.
The most state law will permit in the context of specific performance for a breach of a personal services agreement is the equivalent of a non-compete obligation.
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While the law does not currently require the payment of performance royalties from over-the-air (terrestrial) radio stations to artists and record labels, it does require services offering streaming digital content online, like Pandora or Spotify, to make such royalty payments.
Progress in many areas of ICT follows Moore's law, they write, which suggests that circuit performance should double every 1-2 years.
"Since crime began its steady downward slide in 1992, more than 1, 100 federal, state and local law enforcement officers have lost their lives in the performance of duty, " Floyd said.
The quest to remake teachers' annual performance grades began in 2010, when the state passed a law requiring districts to jettison systems that allowed principals to judge teachers on a simple up-or-down system that critics considered arbitrary and all but useless.
In Greece there is a law against sacking government workers solely on grounds of poor performance.
U.S. buyers of luxury-performance cars aren't looking just to drive fast, since the law forbids taking these cars up to even half their rated top speeds.
Both Tennessee and Louisiana changed their charter school laws to meet Race to the Top criteria, and California dropped from its books a law that made it illegal to tie teacher evaluations to student performance.
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The drama is largely internal: Gilbert learns, after a performance, that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car accident, and he attempts to face his changed circumstances, as well as his own aging.
He is not burdened with the ghastly rumors and accusations of performance enhancing substances nor is he adamantly defending his innocence in a court of law.
We know, for instance, that loopholes in the law's accountability system must be closed to ensure that the performance of disadvantaged children is not being hidden or ignored.
This cheapness is owed to what I call the flip side of Moore's Law, the side that predicts dropping costs at a constant rate of performance.
Whether he is found guilty or not by the rule of law, there is a good chance that federal investigators discovered Clemens used performance enhancing drugs to an extent he did not divulge during his Congressional testimony.
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Under state law, the city must have a new, four-tiered job-performance review in place by January or lose a small amount of state funding.
Democrats have tried to poke holes in those numbers, but according to recent poll from Marquette University Law School, a slight majority of voters approve of Walker's performance in Madison.
These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and, except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances.
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Now, here's what a firewall law is: It basically says that you can't factor in the performance of students when you're evaluating teachers.
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The amendment would have required industry watchdog Ofwat to publish a league table on the performance of water companies in achieving this aim, within a year of the bill passing into law.
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