After years of approving record bonuses while dividends and earnings climbed, shareholders are now pressing companies across all industries to review their bonus systems.
The Legislature has approved record increases in school aid in each of the last three years, in part to help districts meet the standards set in the 1983 Regents' Action Plan.
The administration often boasts that it has approved record numbers of Medicaid waivers, which exempt states from some federal regulations and give them broad discretion to decide who gets what services.
Jairam Ramesh, until recently India's environment minister, was seen as pro-green; but while he angered the business lobby by blocking some high-profile schemes, he also approved record numbers of clearances.
In the first four years of the Bush administration, Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, often boasted that he had approved record numbers of waivers, allowing states to decide who got what benefits under Medicaid and the child health program.
There have been no amendments in the eight years since the extension was approved, records show.
The Times reported Monday that Deasy and his chief deputy at the time, Jaime Aquino, appear to have been discussing the school system's effort to supply students computers equipped with online curriculum with executives from tech giant Apple Inc. and education publisher Pearson at least two years before a bidding process was concluded and the contracts were approved, records show.
Although challenging to Ethical Review Committees, there may need to be a greater reliance on the spoken word in the case of some ethnic minorities (for example, the use of approved, recorded presentations and consent processes), and the role of the family in decision making may need to more fully acknowledged.
The difference, of course, was that the trumpeter was alive and could approve any record before its release.
Officials are hoping that voters approve a record $790 million bond in May to modernize the city's schools, which average 77 years old.
