Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early as his first year at ADM, Whitacre told FORTUNE in a first-person account published last week, he began hearing from other managers that price fixing was an accepted practice at the com pany. His concern grew in February 1992, when Randall and vice chairman Michael ("Mick") Andreas, the son of the chairman, told Whitacre to begin working with Terrance Wilson, the president of the corn-processing division. Wilson, they said, would instruct him "about how ADM does business.'' But colleagues had warned Whitacre to be wary of Wilson because he was said to be involved in the price...
...warned Whitacre to get an attorney without ties to ADM. But the advice was given casually, and Whitacre did not keep it in mind. As a result, Whitacre spent four hours talking to attorney John Dowd, whom ADM had hired. The next morning, Whitacre said in his magazine account, "someone at ADM called me and said, 'Hey, Dwayne told me your attorney just told him that you're the mole. You're the one who caused all this.' " (Dowd has said Whitacre okayed notifying ADM about his role as an informant...
Residential planners have begun to account implicitly for human nature. They're designing neighborhoods that foster affiliation--large common recreational spaces, extensive pedestrian thoroughfares and even, in some cases, parking spaces that make it hard to hop from car to living room without traversing some turf in between. In effect: drive-in, hunter-gatherer villages...
...more help to the Ethics Committee, but I just have no memory," he says. "I think part of the reason--you can see it in the depositions of the women--is that I was drunk. That is not an excuse for conduct, but it probably may account for loss of memory." The Senator said he has not had a drink for three years. He criticizes the media for not investigating the accusers and notes that most of the incidents happened more than a dozen years ago. "If you are going to allege a pattern of conduct, what does 'pattern' mean...
...years ago. These ancient flyers, says evolutionary biologist Nancy Simmons of New York City's American Museum of Natural History, were "virtually indistinguishable from today's echolocating bats." Though laymen think they most resemble rodents, bats' closest cousins are primates. Modern bats are amazingly diverse; about 1,000 species account for nearly a fourth of all mammal species. The only known group of flying mammals, they range in size from Thailand's tiny bumblebee bat, weighing less than a penny, to Indonesia's giant flying fox, with wingspans of nearly 6 ft. Many bats feed on insects, while others prefer...