时间:2018-12-05 作者:英语课 分类:商业报道2006年


英语课

One company getting tough on its former CEO, Ali Velshi here Minding Your Business. Good morning, Ali.

Good morning, John. I used to love er..looking into the catalogues of this company, going through the store of Sharper Image. It was founded a long time ago, a guy named Richard Thalheimer founded it in 1977. And until last September, he was the company's CEO. Now, Richard Thalheimer had a deal that he signed in 2002 that said when he retired 1, he would get a retirement 2 package that came to no less than 5 million dollars. Turns out that his retirement package is gonna be less than 5 million dollars, because the company is cutting more than 3 million dollars out of it, saying that the options that he got which he did very well on more than offset 3 the actual package he was going to get. Now the company is not saying whether anything to do with those options was wrong, however, it is investigating its options granting practices for discrepancies 4. In these days, John, discrepancy 5 tends to mean backdating but the company isn't commenting on that. We're getting all of that from an SEC filing.

Over at Friendly's ice cream, here's an interesting story there's been shareholder 6 who's been piling up on shares. He has got more than a million shares now. A guy named Sardar Biglari, he's from Texas. He had been very critical of the company's management saying that it's got poor corporate 7 governance, poor operations, poor stock performance and a weak stock price, and he'd been wanting a seat on the board for the last few months. Well, they gave him one last month on the condition that he doesn't solicit 8 votes for things that the board doesn't agree with. Now I should tell you this is where board problems start. The idea is that if you wanna come on this board, you can't complain or do anything about the things that you don't like. So good on this...



SEC abbr.
Securities and Exchange Commission
证券交易委员会



1 retired
adj.隐退的,退休的,退役的
  • The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
  • Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
2 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
3 offset
n.分支,补偿;v.抵消,补偿
  • Their wage increases would be offset by higher prices.他们增加的工资会被物价上涨所抵消。
  • He put up his prices to offset the increased cost of materials.他提高了售价以补偿材料成本的增加。
4 discrepancies
n.差异,不符合(之处),不一致(之处)( discrepancy的名词复数 )
  • wide discrepancies in prices quoted for the work 这项工作的报价出入很大
  • When both versions of the story were collated,major discrepancies were found. 在将这个故事的两个版本对照后,找出了主要的不符之处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 discrepancy
n.不同;不符;差异;矛盾
  • The discrepancy in their ages seemed not to matter.他们之间年龄的差异似乎没有多大关系。
  • There was a discrepancy in the two reports of the accident.关于那次事故的两则报道有不一致之处。
6 shareholder
n.股东,股票持有人
  • The account department have prepare a financial statement for the shareholder.财务部为股东准备了一份财务报表。
  • A shareholder may transfer his shares in accordance with the law.股东持有的股份可以依法转让。
7 corporate
adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的
  • This is our corporate responsibility.这是我们共同的责任。
  • His corporate's life will be as short as a rabbit's tail.他的公司的寿命是兔子尾巴长不了。
8 solicit
vi.勾引;乞求;vt.请求,乞求;招揽(生意)
  • Beggars are not allowed to solicit in public places.乞丐不得在公共场所乞讨。
  • We should often solicit opinions from the masses.我们应该经常征求群众意见。
学英语单词
achromobacterium
adjustable speed transmission
Aethelberht
anal prolapse
armures
asterisking
astragalotibial
augmente
behind-the-scenes, behind-scene
bi-metal liner
biological operation
bleeped out
breviradiate
brotherella falcata
calendar methods
candacia tenuimana
capsulates
cartless
ceske
chorherr
chronogenetics
Cling to hope
coffee makers
commerous
common consequence effect (allais)
common mode failures
depositing floating dock
depth of piston
Derris malaccensis
differential effect
disgruntling
dryopteris varia (l.) o.ktze.
empire state building
environmental hygienics
European red
fine leg
flexible printed circuit
franqois
gain work experience
ganglionated nerve cord
garvies
gender indentity
genus bettongias
Gold Identity Marks Registry
hightailed
hog-skin
idleship
igneous metamorphism
image thinking
indolidan
inner topology
iw process
jaromir
jewboy
King's Men
lead-lead age
less-healthy
low-temperature thermocouple
marchite
margo liber
Moore tube
motorcycle racing
non-structureds
Nutak
occupational adaptability
on the distaff side
passel
play over
polygonometric point
polyimide resin composite
pseudo-crystal
quantitative trade quota
railmotor
refastens
resoluble
saw tooth clutch
scurve
second operation
semisimple algebra
service request
short rotary furnace smelting
shoving method of bricklaying
side-kick
soft-center steel mouldboard
stable airfoil
tariff for the transit of goods
taxobiogeography
tellurion
torne
true experimental research
variable equilizer
vertical motor
Vigantol
voltinisms
waist coat
weinshienk
well-provendered
wire race ball bearing
woodpecker
work rest blade
work-cards
yield process