Word: accountant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years as mayor is ebbing. After he left office, two of his top aides were convicted of fund-raising-related crimes. And Flynn's tenure as an ambassador earned him a reputation for erratic and often unstatesmanlike behavior in Washington and Rome. After the Globe published an eyewitness account of him appearing drunk in the late afternoon, Flynn went on 60 Minutes to rebut the charges. Now he dismisses the controversy. "I don't think [voters] take it seriously," he says...
...inflation and interest rates help explain these valuations. But even the trusty "rule of 20," which takes inflation into account, has been trashed. The rule holds that the market P/E plus the rate of inflation should total about 20, as it has for most of the past 40 years. With inflation running at 1.7%, today's reading is 23, and when calculated using reported rather than expected earnings, it jumps to 29--well above the 26 reached on that basis just before the 1987 crash, notes analyst Richard Bernstein at Merrill Lynch...
WASHINGTON: Just what did that "improper" relationship involve, anyway? As Monica Lewinsky returned for five hours of grand jury grilling Thursday, a special issue of TIME reports that her account of the White House tryst may be significantly damaging to President Clinton. While the President denied perjuring himself and admitted receiving only oral sex, Lewinsky told jurors that Clinton fondled her breasts and genitals. Such activity was unquestionably covered by the definition of sex Clinton was shown in his January deposition, when he denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. When presented with her critically different version, the President refused...
...Clinton's practiced reticence was one thing that worked against him -- two-thirds of those polled said he should have come forward earlier. But his long-time love affair with the camera, at least, is still intact: People were 10 percent more likely to believe the President's account if they watched it on television. So that makes two Kennedyesque traits Clinton has inherited...
Regardless of your income, many states allow you to either prepay tomorrow's tuition at today's rates or save in some other tax-favorable education account, for instance one that lets your money grow tax-deferred, much like...