Word: accountants
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...seems that any account of a fulfilling college career would include items not destined for parental notification. Planning a public career needn't forestall the carousing, pranks and otherwise embarassing events of a normal youth...
While scores of black journalists are now employed by the country's most prestigious news organizations, both publishers and activists agreed that the gains have come too slowly. Minorities make up 25% of the U.S. population, but they account for only 7% of the nation's newsroom employees, vs. 4% in 1978. In TV news, black employees have not increased their ratios at all in the past 15 years, and in radio their numbers are declining. What is more, 55% of the country's 1,645 dailies still do not employ a single minority member in the newsroom. "Every year...
This time, Erdrich goes to the sources of her saga's bloodlines. Nanapush, a Chippewa elder born in 1862, begins with a stark account of an epidemic that devastated his people during the winter of 1912. "Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken," he laments. Pauline Puyat, born around the turn of the century, picks up the pace with a fanciful tale about one of the survivors, Fleur Pillager, a young girl | who grows to inhabit the book as the central symbol of endurance and revenge. Fleur...
Banks in the U.S. charged customers $145 million in fees last year for writing checks that bounced because of "uncollected funds." That is banking jargon for deposits that have not yet been credited to a customer's account during a holding period, as long as three weeks for out-of-town drafts, that the institutions have traditionally imposed as both a precaution against bad checks and a way to profit from the float. But the consumer frustration of waiting for a check to clear will be vastly reduced by new U.S. regulations that took effect last week. The law requires...
...topped $119 billion, and has risen at the staggering average annual rate of 8.8% for the past two decades. The country financed its fast expansion by running up a foreign debt that reached $47 billion by 1986. But in that same year South Korea registered a small current-account trade surplus, the first in its history, and last year expanded it to $7.7 billion. That overage has helped enable the country to reduce its foreign debt to a current level of $35 billion...