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It’s been awhile since we’ve handed out any gold stars here at footnoted. And what with the market mayhem, margin calls, Paulson playing hardball with the nation’s top bankers, and AIG executives showing just how stupid they can be, there hasn’t been a lot to celebrate.
But then I came across Costco’s (COST) 10K, which it [...]
Resource Capital Corp. (RSO) has redefined the concept of gardening. In a recent 8-K filing, RSO disclosed new employment terms for Vice President David Bloom. Of course, the terms aren’t that new — the agreement was reached in December 2007. Maybe Resource Capital was tending to its vegetables and forgot about its [...]
Earlier this year a Canadian publication called uniform maker Cintas Corporation (CTAS) one of the best employers in Canada. But last week, here in America, a union-backed group - angered by the 2007 death of a Cintas worker dragged into an industrial dryer at the firm’s Tulsa plant - embarked on a “Painful Truth Tour” [...]
For the past two years, FedEx (FDX) has been dealing with (and routinely disclosing) a grand-jury subpoena from the Department of Justice related to a criminal investigation of anti-competitive behavior in the air-freight transportation industry. As Reuters reported at the time, the subpoena appeared to focus on air surcharge fees imposed after Sept. 11.
But in [...]
Here at footnoted.org, we’re all about kicking the tires to see how something works, tastes or feels. Before my recent trip to Copenhagen, I bought an Ipod Touch to see how well the WiFi worked, only to return it and wait for whenever the new Iphone comes out. But the “officer evaluation program” at Circuit [...]
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