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Pay Czar Expands Salary Caps

Dec. 11, 2009
Pay czar Kenneth Feignberg announced limits on compensation for second-tier executives at four companies that received the biggest government bailouts. Meanwhile, Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs announced that its bonuses for 2009 would be paid in stock, not cash.
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler