| Club defends hike in directors' pay
PAYMENTS to Watford Leisure Plc directors have more than quadrupled at a time when the club finds itself £2.6m overdrawn. The annual accounts of the company recorded the directors' payments rose from £451,000 to £1.69m during the last year. Chairman Graham Simpson was the highest paid director on £590,708 - an increase of £289,000 from the previous 12 months and over half-a-million more than he received in 2005. The Russo brothers, Jimmy and Vince who were removed from the board in May, received £130,000 each and a further £305,351 between them for Loss of Office'. The remainder is £535,000. The other directors are Andy Wilson and chief executive Mark Ashton. .
Chase Paymentech Makes Gift Cards Easy for Small Businesses with All ...
DALLAS, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Chase Paymentech, the world's premier provider of payment services, announced today the introduction of an integrated, All-In-One payments package that provides small and medium-sized businesses with payment card processing and business growth services, including a "ready-to-market" gift card package. This new package will help ensure that smaller businesses can provide their customers the same payment choices as national retail chains. With the run-up to the 2007 holiday shopping period, letting customers use card-based payment methods - including the increasingly-popular gift card option - will provide a boost to merchants' bottom line. Gift cards are proven to increase merchant sales while increasing merchant profitability and are considered an increasingly essential tool for driving key holiday sales.
Sondheim and Burton: Devilishly clever
And then, in 1979, he takes a trip to an Afghan refugee camp. And good-time Charlie gets serious. Out of such real-life contradictions springs "Charlie Wilson's War," a new movie from director Mike Nichols. The last in a long year of movies on our Mideast misadventures, it has a script by Aaron Sorkin, star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and a knowing and flippant tone. Continue reading "Good-time Charlie's misadventure" » .
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