Young Negotiators

Perhaps a modest approach to runaway pay is in order - like attacking potential conflicts of interest among compensation consultants who design the lucrative packages.

Government-subsidized gasoline keeps motorists in the Gulf region from feeling the pinch at the pump, while windfall oil revenues have put deluxe cars in more people’s reach.

Producers and consumers in Jidda emphasized starkly divergent views on both the fundamental causes and possible remedies for the current energy crisis.

Perhaps a modest approach to runaway pay is in order - like attacking potential conflicts of interest among compensation consultants who design the lucrative packages.

Through Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett launched his own bond insurer late last year as credit problems began to mount for others, and those problems have only worsened since then.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is poised to bring the most dramatic change to the Internet in four decades by opening up domain names to endless variations.

Corporate interests have won several important victories, but trial lawyers continue to try to undo legislation restricting litigation and are pursuing new strategies of their own.

India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the United States, but it must buy some foods on international markets, exacerbating a global food crisis.

The bill that Gov. David A. Paterson and leaders of the State Legislature announced last week was, for Albany, that rarest of things — an effective compromise.

U.S. trade envoys had agreed to restrict beef exports to cattle less than 30 months old. Even so, 10,000 South Koreans rallied against the imports as President Lee Myung Bak struggled to regain the trust of the public.

The “single European sky” plan calls for a consolidation of air traffic control, which is currently divided into 650 units administered from 60 air traffic control centers in 27 nations.

Many more uniquely domestic comedies are not performing as well as other American movies abroad, posing a problem for Hollywood, which depends on foreign markets for roughly half of its total revenue.

Homes are a new arena for LEED ratings, environmental badges of honor usually given to commercial buildings.

India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the U.S., but it must buy some foods on international markets, exacerbating a global food crisis.

An energy meeting in Saudi Arabia underscored how few options the world has to push oil prices down from their record levels.

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New software promises to correct harmonic mistakes in music as easily as other software now fixes the red eyes in digital photographs.

Frequent topics of discussion these days include the interruptions of working in the digital age, the mistakes we make while multitasking and the efforts to find quiet places to think.

An approach to runaway executive pay might involve looking at potential conflicts of interest that compensation consultants may have as they provide other services to companies as well.