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Search results for "growth" ...
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"Unique Approaches to Uncover the Size and Growth of Executive Pay and Pensions"
While employees throughout the U.S. experienced pay cuts or were laid off, top executives were receiving millions of dollars in bonuses. Reporters Ellen Schultz and Tom McGinty dig deep to find out exactly how extreme those payouts have become.
Tags: payouts; bonuses; Bank of America; Wells Fargo; Citigroup; executive benefits
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The Forgotten
This story is an inside look at the systematic warehousing of more than 17,000 adults and children in Serbia's mental institutions. Dateline NBC gained unprecedented access to remote, government-run facilities and found alarming and sometimes life-threatening conditions. The institutions are remnants of Serbia's communist past and symbols of a deeply ingrained prejudice against the mentally disabled and their families. Serbia's medical establishment continues to advise parents to put their mentally disabled newborns into institutions, and the government provides virtually no support for those who choose not to. In mental institutions throughout Serbia, Dateline found adults and children crammed into fetid rooms and metal cribs, their bodies emaciated, atrophied and disfigured. Some residents appeared to be children but they were actually young adults whose growth had been stunted by years of institutionalization. One of our most disturbing discoveries came while staying overnight in a dangerously overcrowded institution. There we learned that children are routinely tied to their bed railings for long periods of time - a practice that one disability rights organization says meets the legal definition of torture under international law.
Tags: mental health; Serbia; child abuse; patient abuse; patient rights; mental institutions
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Illegal Labor Fix Falls Short
The investigation took three months and looks at the effectiveness in preventing illegal immigration. "The Star focused on the home-building industry for this series because of its vital role in Tucson's growth. Illegal labor also is common in other industries, including hospitality and agrigculture."
Tags: labor; illegal immigration; border patrol; housing; state government; federal government
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Free Lunch
Free Lunch is "an expose of hidden and subtle government policies that take from the many to give to the few. It explains why a quarter century of economic growth has not been matched by rising incomes, except for those at the very top."
Tags: government spending; economy; economics; wealthy; incomes; salaries
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Rx For Trouble: Inside the Steriod Sting
"The article exposes an illegal internet/rogue-doctor/compound pharmacy/anti-aging clinic/steroid distribution network that has provided human growth hormone and steroids to dozens of major athletes in a variety of sports and has made these drugs accessible to America's youth. Sports Illustrated exposes questionable activity of an NFL doctor who subsequently is forced to resign from his job."
Tags: steriods; drugs; athletes; human growth hormone
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Department thrifty despite salary growth
"The impetus for the project was Florida's budget crisis. Governments are cutting services like libraries and street sweeping to help balance the state's budget. But between 2001 and 2006, governments were overloaded with money, and we wanted to see what they spent it on. Sheriff's Offices seemed like a logical case study. Some offices were judicious in their spending; others, such as the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, bought souped-up SUVs for high ranking officers."
Tags: police; government spending; budget; salary; perks; sheriff; Florida
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Performance Enhancing Drugs in the NFL
NFL players were taking humam growth hormone as a performance-enhancing drug because there was no reliable urine test for the drug. Then the HGH was mixed with low levels of steroids that would avoid detection.
Tags: national football leauge; Bob Costas; professional sport; medicine; steroid
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It's new era for workers in N.E. Ohio
As more jobs are becoming available to Northeastern Ohio's residents, the pay is going down in certain kinds of work, like manufacturing. People are having to reevaluate their occupations and either take a new job or change careers completely to adapt to the new economy.
Tags: Economy; job growth; pay; manufacturing; health care; pay cuts; job changing
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The Speculators
Reporters investigated a small group of politically connected investors who are shaping the growth and character of one of the biggest land booms in the country. Because of their connections they operate unfettered by restrictions or requirements. If the deals go bad, the speculators face few consequences and quickly re-emerge unscathed while they continue to play fast and loose with other peoples' money.
Tags: land development; speculation industry; land owners; FOIA
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MS-13: An International Franchise
The series provided a comprehensive and detailed examination of Mara Salvatrucha's (MS-13's) growth, criminal activity, mobility and international coordination. Key findings were that a series of high profile murder investigations arching from Central America to Texas to the Washington DC area were linked to a single LA cell of the gang. Also the series was able to demonstrate how a major U.S. strategy for combating MS-13 - deporting members to their home countries- helped spread the gang across Central America and to new areas in the U.S.
Tags: gangs; Mara Salvatruchas; Central America; murder; MS-13; international crime; deportation