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.