Word: accountants
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...fact that a rape occurred in a Harvard academic facility. The true significance of the December 7 Science Center rape is that it has reflected the fact that women are being restricted from going to certain places, University academic and residential facilities no less, at certain times on account of their sex. That no regulation to that effect has been enacted is of no significance; the threat of incurring rape is a more effective deterrent than any Administrative Board decree...
Corporate executives argue that FASB is trying to reform the system too rapidly. The accounting change could slash earnings at some firms by half and put others into the red. As corporations are forced to account for their retirement obligations, many are expected to cut such benefits for their present workers. Corporations will have until 1992 to submit their arguments against the plan or plead for a delay...
Public service became an addiction for him long ago. It isn't for want of a warm personal life. He remains gooey over his wife of 21 years, Kathleen Emmet Darman, a writer who has a Ph.D. in literature. They met, by his account, as teenagers at a "Beacon sociable," where Brahmin calves learned to dance under proper supervision. He sought for years to get her attention, even using ploys that could later be called Darmanesque. She gently scoffs at this romantic notion, conceding only that they met as graduate students at a dinner he arranged for that purpose. They...
...School of Social Service Administration. "Imagine yourself in a classroom with adults who speak your language, yet you are unable to interpret what they want you to do, even though you wish to please them." Not understanding the meaning of time, she asserts, is a handicap that may partly account for the poor academic performance of many inner-city children throughout their school careers...
Taken as a whole, minorities besides Asian-Americans account only for 9.1 percent of the early group...