Verizon Communications Second Quarter Earnings Highlighted by Strong Long-Distance and Wireless Sales.
Industry-Leading Cost Controls, Merger Synergies Drive Adjusted EPS of 77 Cents, in Line with Consensus; Long-Distance Customers Reach 6 Million SECOND QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS * 804,000 new long-distance customers, 6.0 million nationwide * 253,000 new Massachusetts long-distance customers since market entry ...

GreenPoint's Net Income Up 34% to $0.95.
NEW YORK, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- GreenPoint Financial Corp. (NYSE: GPT) today announced record net income of $0.95 per diluted share, or $86 million, an increase of 34% over the second quarter of 2000 and 10% over the first quarter. Highlights of the Quarter: ...

Verizon Communications Posts Strong First Quarter Earnings.
Adjusted EPS of 72 Cents at High End of Target Range; Sustained Demand for Data, Long-Distance, Wireless Services FIRST QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS * 180,000 new DSL (digital subscriber line) customers for total of 720,000 * 500,000 new long-distance customers, 5.2...

On the prowl.
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard GENE WOLFSON can't seem to get away from Jody Coyote Inc., the Eugene-based jewelry manufacturer he founded in 1973. He has twice sold the business that started out as a booth selling hoop earrings at Eugene's Saturday Market and now...

To flip or not to flip?: using a family limited partnership as a harvesting strategy.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Family Limited Partnership as a potential harvesting strategy. The use of a family limited partnership (FLiP) in succession planning has proliferated in recent years. The popularity of FLiPs can be attributed to the unique benefits they...

Determining the retroactive effect of laws altering the consequences of criminal convictions.
INTRODUCTION It has long been established that legislatures can pass laws that limit a person's rights based on past criminal convictions. (1) In Hawker v. People of New York, (2) the United States Supreme Court held that there was no ex post facto problem when a state...

A plan doomed by high profits.
For eleven years Peoria's Journal Star was the newspaper industry's prime example of how to keep a newspaper locally owned by selling it to employees. In March and April 1993, I wrote columns in AJR describing how it was done and how successful employee ownership could be. Too successful,...

ERISA Section 104(b)(4): what documents do employees have a right to demand from their employers?
The American worker has an undeniable fear regarding his future pension benefits. As the following sample demonstrates, this fear has manifested itself frequently in all parts of the country: the Santa Fe New Mexican reported that state prison guards fear the loss of their pensions under a new system;(1)...

Corporate governance in a global environment: the search for the best of all worlds(*).
ABSTRACT This Article reflects on the various visions of corporate governance. Initially, the Article reviews the contractarian and communitarian theories of the corporation. The communitarian theory views the corporation as a separate entity, with social responsibilities not only to the shareholders but to the firm's other stakeholders...

Executive pay - then, now and ahead.
From whence we've come to where we're going: four trends that will shape the board's compensation decisionmaking. In August of 1930, Literary Digest published the 1929 annual compensation of Eugene G. Grace, president of Bethlehem Steel: salary $12,000, bonus $1,623,753. The incentive paid to Grace was 135 times his...