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...There was a congressional hearing that discussed the two-step in February, and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois has expressed interest in drafting legislation to reform this process....
...“I think corporations and the wealthy need to pay their fair share,” he said....
...in an equivalent salaried job for a large corporation....
...After a degree in chemical engineering at the University of Massachusetts, he took a doctorate at the University of Illinois. By the time of his first job, at GE’s plastics division, he was 25....
...Two years ago, the opening of a branch in Illinois in the Midwest drew large Filipino crowds comparable to a blockbuster film premiere....
...at nearby Purdue University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign....
...The market operator Nasdaq has now launched energy contracts that clear at the Options Clearing Corporation, a utility shared by several exchanges....
...His later roles included chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, set up to develop the sites of the 2001 attacks on New York....
...Mr Emanuel inherited decades of debt piled up by the old city “machine” run by legendary bosses — principally the Daley family, where father and son held a firm grip for 43 of the past 60 years....
...Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s classic Men and Women of the Corporation is a must read....
...“This is our core business,” Pin Ni, who is also Mr Lu’s son-in-law, said. “We can bring a lot of value [to Fisker] which is important to all of its stakeholders.”...
...Born in Montana, the son of self-taught naturalists, Gerrity had spent two decades helping corporations go smoother, faster and better....
...“CEOs of large corporations should have more people around with creativity. Artistic people are problem-solvers. They’re big thinkers.”...
...Carnival Corporation plunged 13.7 per cent to $29.60 as investors traded shares in the cruise ship operator for the first time since one of its liners ran aground off the coast of Italy on the weekend....
...A wake will be held on Monday in Skokie, Illinois followed by a funeral mass and reception on Tuesday in Winnetka, Illinois....
...They have also sharpened expectations of the succession of Rahul, her son, as premier. The financial markets exacted their punishment....
...Together the couple had four sons and a daughter Maria, the wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the film star and former governor of California....
...Options Clearing Corporation, discussed the idea of “cross-margining”....
...He grew up in Wisconsin, the son of a life-assurance salesman whose work ethic he cites as one of his inspirations. Mr Sprecher visits Chicago regularly and owns an apartment there....
...John Taylor, the president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said banks such as Goldman were under pressure to “do something good”, especially for a bank widely seen as a “favourite son”...
...Chris Kennedy There was talk Robert’s son was thinking of running for Barack Obama’s old Senate seat in Illinois. But the businessman revealed earlier this month that he had decided not to. Robert F....
...Born in 1939, he was brought up in Rockford, Illinois, where his father was an advertising copywriter and his mother a Vassar-educated “space fanatic” – something that rubbed off on her son....
...They are the eight sons of the avant-garde Chicago trumpeter Phil Cohran; having not quite sired a sports team, he had to settle for a brass octet....
...But the “intersection of interests” among Biden, his son, his ex-aide and his contributors “all steer the senator toward one perspective,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the non-partisan Center...
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