ECONOMIC CONDITIONS:
REGULATORY CHANGES:
PRESIDENT: George Bush
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY: John Snow
SECRETARY OF STATE: Condoleezza Rice
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Donald H. Rumsfeld
SUPREME COURT: John G. Roberts (’05-Present) (Chief Justice – ’05-Present)
CONGRESS: Speaker, Dennis Hastert (R)
FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN: Alan Greenspan
NY FEDERAL RESERVE: Timothy Geithner, President
HIGHEST PAID CEO: Terry S Semel – Yahoo
$230,554,000
Inflation adjusted: $246,054,000
BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE: Henry McKinnell, Chairman & CEO of Pfizer, Chairman
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: Peter Peterson, Chairman
KEY BANK MERGERS: PNC and Riggs; Capital One Financial and Hibernia National; Bank of America and MBNA
KEY NON-BANK MERGERS: Sprint and Nextel; US Airways and America West; Republic Airways and Shuttle America; P&G and Gillette; SBC Communications and AT&T; Verizon and MCI; Federated and May Department Stores; United Defense and BAE; CNOOC Ltd and Unocal; Adobe and Macromedia; NASDAQ and Instinet; Lenovo buys IBM PC division; Sun Micro and Storage Technologies; PropLogis and Catellus Corp; Ameritrade and TD Waterhouse; Whirlpool and Maytag; eBay and Skype; Oracle and Siebel Systems; Koch Industries and Georgia-Pacific; Cisco and Scientific Atlanta; Viacom and DreamWorks; ConocoPhilips and Burlington Resources; FPL Group and Constellation Energy Group; Seagate and Maxtor
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: