Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lyndon Johnson. Combine that with his certain endorsement by many right-to-life groups, and an image emerges of an ungainly, deep-fried reactionary with little chance of carrying the moderate vote on Election Day. His droning, pedantic keynote speech at the 1992 Republican Convention was, by virtually every account, a disaster...
...didn't pay all his bills. Last week the Financial Times obtained internal documents pointing to error account No. 88888, a piece of evidence overlooked by Barings auditors. It showed Leeson had already built up a $80 million deficit at the end of 1994, the year in which he supposedly earned huge profits for Barings and had become known unofficially as the Nikkei king on the SIMEX floor. His reputation was based on his ability to spot tiny differences in the value of Nikkei futures on the exchanges of Singapore and Osaka, Japan, and make millions by exploiting the spread...
...told his Barings contact in New York, "I hope you're getting some credit for this because your company is getting a lot of business from me in Singapore." It is still not clear where the mystery client's investing stopped and where Leeson's own-hidden in error account No. 88888-began. But right to the end, Leeson claimed that his huge, inexplicable investments were on someone else's behalf. "He always told us it was for this special customer," says one of his regional supervisors. "When we go back and listen to tapes of those conversations...
Chmura said he believed that the survey did nottake many factors into account, including the LawSchool's recent $150 million campaign "aimed atexpanding faculty and resources at a time whenmost other colleges are reducing their assets...
...affirmative action" refered to acts such as hiring or reinstatement of employees that a court would order an employer found guilty of actual discrimination to take. Otherwise, employers were explicitly not required to grant preferential treatment to any individual or group on the basis of race on account of a racial imbalance or disparity among employees...