Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been receiving from customers checks that had been drawn on insufficient funds and thus could not be cashed. At one point, the value of the collateral had fallen to $357,000, while the loan balance totaled $833,000. In June 1977, the bank asked Billy to stop using that account...
Humphreys has long benefited from Blanton's particular quantity of mercy. Two months after entering prison, Humphreys was made a trusty, assigned to work as a photographer for the state's tourist development department, loaned a state-owned automobile and even given an expense account. On one trip, he took along his second wife Leslie to photograph a golf tournament. Blanton had defended Humphreys as a "fine young man" and vowed to release him before leaving office, despite the opposition of a citizens' review panel and members of the state legislature. After his release from prison last...
...season coxswain, I can't afford the calories in a Scorpion Bowl from the Kong, so in the past week I've read six trashy novels. I've watched countless hours of sitcom reruns on the tube. And I've played so much pinball I need a charge account for "Lost World" at Tommy's Yesterday I was so bored I even read a book for my thesis, and it's not due 'til March...
...Harvard returns $100,000 in Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) grants to the federal government, because they were improperly charged to the account of another HEW grant...
...government's detective work uncovered the fact that about $5800 was credited to a National Institutes of Health grant, and about $600 charged twice to the same account. In addition, the auditors found evidence of some incorrect accounting procedures, such as the method of calculating salary payments to researchers...