The party began with a cocktail reception and silent auction, then segued into a live one hosted by actor Alec Baldwin, who also sits on the Hole in the Wall board.
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And they are little more than a fly on the wall at the board level.
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Shlaes, a columnist for Bloomberg News and a former member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, looks at the Depression through pro-market eyes.
"The fact that the stock didn't move after good earnings suggested to the board that Wall Street might not have confidence in that management team, " he said.
This idea has been championed by conservative policy entrepreneurs such as Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review and Robert Stein, a veteran of George W. Bush's Treasury Department, yet it has met with fierce resistance from The Wall Street Journal editorial board, which sees it as an unjustifiable tax giveaway that is an unhelpful distraction from the need to cut marginal tax rates.
In place of the old board, according to a Wall Street Journal report, Mr Pitt is now expected to recommend a Public Accountability Board.
Mr. Restall is the editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal.
Mary O'Grady is a member of the editorial board at The Wall Street Journal and writes editorial columns on Latin America, trade and international economics.
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During his tenure, as before, the NYSE's board was stuffed with Wall Street big-hitters.
Inadvertently funny things said backstage get written on a quote board tacked to a wall in their dressing room.
Hugo Restall, the Far Eastern Economic Review editor, will remain a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board.
The Wall Street Journal's editorial board and the Democratic National Committee have criticized McCain for planning to attend the Reed fundraiser in Atlanta, Georgia.
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On a wall hangs her "work in progress board, " covered with yarn samples, color groupings, photos of needlework patterns and printouts diagramming where various yarn patterns should go.
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These apprehensions are enunciated with characteristic eloquence in today's Wall Street Journal in an opinion piece by editorial board member and columnist George Melloan.
Finally, there's the case of New York Stock Exchange chief Richard Grasso, whom Spitzer went after for his outsized compensation package, dragging in a host of Wall Street hot shots on the exchange's board.
For his pay package to make sense, he must be compared to the CEOs of top Wall Street firms whose CEOS serve on the NYSE board--executives like Henry Paulson , CEO of Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ), William Harrison of J.
Sky had an office on Wall Street, a trading floor, Compliance office, board of directors, legal opinions, real employees, etc.
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Mr Reed is scrapping a special board committee's report on what lessons the Grasso scandal holds for how the exchange is run.
Because their cartel, the American Medical Association, both restricts the supply of physicians through insanely restrictive licensure requirements and controls the Medicare board that determines physician compensation, as the Wall Street Journal reported this week.
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On my walk down the corridor to board my plane home, I saw loose and chipped wall tiles.
Mr Brown will remind voters of the suspicious share deals Ms Whitman enjoyed when she was on the board of Goldman Sachs, currently America's favourite Wall Street bogeyman.
Moreover, executives from Wall Street firms will no longer be allowed to sit on the NYSE board's six-member compensation committee.
Better yet, add two women to the board and you might even avoid becoming the subject of an acerbic Wall Street Journal headline.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Thompson disclosed to the company's board before resigning that he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Mr. Lawler succeeds co-founder Aubrey McClendon, who left amid pressure from board members recently installed by Chesapeake's largest shareholders, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Even the best research analysts on Wall Street do not have nearly as much advantage in assessing the executives and board members of a public company.
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