Since 2007, PHEAA has undergone a series of reforms and cost-cutting initiatives including the elimination of management bonuses, automatic salary increases and all sponsorships and advertisements that were not in line with PHEAA ’ s mission.

Today, PHEAA is a national provider of student financial aid services, serving millions of students and thousands of schools through its loan guaranty, loan servicing, financial aid processing, outreach and other student aid programs.

PHEAA conducts its student loan servicing activities nationally as FedLoan Servicing and American Education Services ( AES )

The program encourages the students to participate in service to the local community and provides technical assistance to the families of program participants ensuring that they apply for educational assistance programs ( Pell Grants, PHEAA grants, etc ) offered by the state and federal government.

The Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, or " PHEAA ", headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with regional offices throughout the state, is the quasi-governmental agency that administers several State higher education student financial aid programs.

* American Education Services, a loan-servicing corporation operated by the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency ( PHEAA )

In 2007, former Department of Education researcher, Dr. Jon Oberg, filed a False Claims Suit against PHEAA and other lenders.

The legislative members of the Board were successful in passing legislation that restructures the PHEAA Board of Directors, which was signed into law by the Governor on July 9, 2010.

This legislation was based on a PHEAA Board resolution that called upon the General Assembly to replace legislative seats on the Board with new private-sector individuals who could provide additional leadership expertise in an increasingly complex financial environment.

PHEAA is accused of taking advantage of a loophole ( now referred to as the 9. 5 % Scandal ), and defrauding U. S. taxpayers of millions of dollars.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".

Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.

One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".

Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.

* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.

In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.

Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.

Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.

Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.

In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).

James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.

Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.

He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".

For instance, Forbes ranked media mogul and talk show host, Oprah Winfrey as the top earner " Forbes magazine ’ s annual ranking of the most powerful celebrities ", with earnings of $ 290 million in the past year.

By 2002 tea became Rwanda ’ s largest export, with export earnings from tea reaching US $ 18 million equating to 15, 000 tons of dried tea.

As a result of oil export earnings around $ 500 million in 2000 – 01, Sudan ’ s current account entered surplus for the first time since independence.

* The Introductory Tax Reform Law ( 1974 ), which increased bad weather payments, part-time workers ’ benefits and insurance benefits to 68 % of net wages, fixed special benefits during vocational training at 90 % of net earnings, increased assistance benefits to 58 % of net earnings, and abolished special family benefits “ in favour of the inclusion of the unemployed under general child allowance scheme ”.

During his tenure, General Dynamics ’ revenues and earnings quadrupled.

The earnings-related supplement was based on the assertion that a person ’ s commitments for mortgages, rents, and hire purchase agreements were related to their normal earnings and could not be adjusted quickly when experiencing a loss of normal income.

As a result of the introduction of earnings related supplements to sickness and unemployment benefits and widows ’ allowances, the total benefit for a man earning £ 30 a week now represented 50 % of his earnings rather than 27 % with just the flat rate ( for a married couple ).

The government also failed to meet its 1964 manifesto commitment to tie increases in national insurance benefits to increases in average earnings, although this reform would later be implemented during Wilson ’ s second premiership in 1975.

This reform assisted women by the linking of pensions to the ‘ twenty best years ’ of earnings, and those who worked at home caring for children or others were counted as contributors.

She was the eldest of four children and was taught to always share with the less fortunate, despite her family ’ s meagre earnings.

Beginning modestly in mid-year 1999 and continuing at an accelerated pace through May 2002, the company ( under the direction of Ebbers, Scott Sullivan ( CFO ), David Myers ( Comptroller ) and Buford " Buddy " Yates ( Director of General Accounting )) used fraudulent accounting methods to mask its declining earnings by painting a false picture of financial growth and profitability to prop up the price of WorldCom ’ s stock.

Whereas United States law sought to isolate banks from securities activities, the Second Directive represented the European Union ’ s conclusion that securities activities diversified bank risk, strengthening the earnings and stability of banks.

Room and board was often a price set by the local government but the price for everything else could add up to a common woman ’ s entire earnings.

If a company displays solid “ top-line growth ,” analysts could view the period ’ s performance as positive even if earnings growth, or “ bottom-line growth ” is stagnant.

EA ’ s earnings are marked by an ongoing difference between non-GAAP and GAAP accounting – which, for example, mandates deferrals of revenue related to services provided for online-enabled packaged goods and digital content.

Consequently, EA ’ s quarterly reports reflect hundreds of millions of dollars which, under GAAP accounting, are deferred for a period of months – then appear in the earnings over multiple quarters subsequent to the original sale.

* On November 30, 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced “ the filing .. of charges against American International Group, Inc. ( AIG ) arising out of AIG ’ s offer and sale of an earnings management product .” The company “ agreed to pay a total of $ 126 million, consisting of a penalty of $ 80 million, and disgorgement and prejudgment interest of $ 46 million .”

Lastly, the rich must religiously refrain from cutting down the workmen ’ s earnings, whether by force, by fraud, or by usurious dealing ; and with all the greater reason because the laboring man is, as a rule, weak and unprotected, and because his slender means should in proportion to their scantiness be accounted sacred.

In 1978, both Loblaw and George Weston Limited returned to profitability and in 1980 Weston ’ s showed record earnings of $ 76 million on sales of $ 6 billion.

Fei ’ s analysis of the village economy had convinced him that rural industry was needed to supplement agricultural earnings.

A day ’ s earnings would go toward a room at a guesthouse, food, and sake.

The FSIO is charged with ensuring the reliability of this social insurance system within its areas of responsibility: old age and survivors ’ insurance ( AHV ), invalidity insurance ( IV ), supplementary benefits, occupational pension funds, compensation for loss of earnings for people on national service and women on maternity leave, and family allowances in the agricultural sector.

In 1960, the group purchased a controlling interest in Stellenbosch Farmer ’ s Winery, which, along with Distillers Corporation, contributed R98 million to group earnings in 1997.