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...accounting profession." Andersen Chairman Harvey E. Kapnick Jr. protests that his company is merely trying to preserve the profession's right to set its own rules, free from Government interference. Some of his colleagues fear that Andersen is inviting the very Government dictation it professes to abhor. If the SEC cannot expect compliance with the F.A.S.B.'S rules, they think, the Government agency might well promulgate nitpicking standards of its own. The ordinary stockholder, trying to make sense out of his company's financial statement, can only hope that somebody, somehow brings about greater uniformity in keeping...
...proved that this is not a building year," an animated Barnaby said after the match. "I abhor that phrase. We have a lot of work to do but we welcome the challenge. it's no fun to just mop up. The satisfying thing is to win the tough matches...
...conditions are drastically changing and, hopefully, some of the emptiness Slesinger's characters endure will soon no longer exist. For now, however, it does--in every woman's life. Slesinger's writing brings cries of recognition and nods of understanding from all women--those involved in, and those who abhor the revolution...
What will be accomplished by leaving these prisoners (young men and women capable of carrying on a useful, normal life) there without any rehabilitation program, without adequate food, without hope of fair treatment? Will it help that much in stopping the drug traffic? I abhor drugs and anything akin to them, but if someone other than the blase embassy could interview these girls and boys, they would find them most happy to use their energies in any kind of anti-drug program...
There is one important reason why Guinier stands out at Harvard: At an institution where traditionalists abhor mixing scholarly pursuits with politics, Guinier endures as a blatantly political figure. His department was created and his appointment made in response to the ferment of student revolt. Five years later, when administrators strive to "depoliticize" things, Guinier still talks about the University's racism, and does it openly and frequently. He is almost out of place in the silent seventies, but he struggles and manages to survive...