Word: accountants
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Nevertheless, Schorr goes to elaborate pains to present a thorough, objective account of his years at CBS, his confrontation with the House Ethics Committee, the pressures put both on him and on the networks by the Nixon administration, and various other highlights of his career. Applying the same aggressive legwork that the distinguished him from most other television journalists, Schorr interviewed nearly all the characters who played a prominent role in "the story." These interviews revealed information previously unknown to Schorr, helping him better understand why certain decisions were made and certain events occurred...
...could have avoided the extra effort needed to produce an objective work and written a purely subjective account, but that would not have been reporting. That would not have been Schorr...
...ONGOING PROBE of possible perjury committed by two International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT) executives--chief executive Harold S. Geneen and senior vice president Edward J. Gerrity--still awaits action by Justice, and a complete account by Helms as government witness rather than defendant might yet salvage a bit of legitimacy for the leniency recently shown him. Given the suspended sentence meted out to Helms and his retention of pension rights despite his no contest plea, such cooperation with the government would furnish some limited evidence that Helms indeed recognizes the gravity of his misdeeds. Otherwise, the nation will...
...Eliminate so-called double indexing, which would eventually account for half of the system's projected deficit. This problem was the unintended result of a 1972 law that tied increases in benefits ?both those being paid now and those that will be paid hi the future?to inflation. Below the maximum benefit (currently $460 per month), the amount a worker will receive from Social Security when he retires increases as his salary rises. Since pay hikes partly reflect inflation, the measure thus inadvertently double-indexed future benefit levels for these workers?about 86% of the people covered by Social...
Long before the search for relatively contemporary roots be came a popular pastime, man sought to account for his ultimate origins. In the Middle Ages he looked to the Bible for the answer Turning to the book of Genesis, which says that God created man on the sixth day. James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armaugh, decided in 1650 to determine when that day had occurred By calculating backward through all the biblical "begats" he figured that man was created in 4004 B.C. John Lightfoot, master of St. Catherine's College at the University of Cambridge, shortly thereafter pinpointed the time...