Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Nini initially denied Cole's account, calling him a "screw-ball" and a "troublemaker," the newsstand owner ultimately retracted his earlier statements about the incident and issued a public apology for his actions...
...decision that will be made sometime during the next week or two. This decision is extremely important because its results will affect the quality of student life and undergraduate education long after our classes leave Harvard. An issue with such large-scale ramifications for students therefore must take into account the ideas and opinions of the students. After a thorough review of the alternatives posed by the administration, I have come to the conclusion that two things are essential in order to secure a structure that best addresses the needs of undergraduates at Harvard...
Norell is planning a return next summer to the Gobi, where there are undoubtedly more surprises awaiting. Jurassic Park 2 may have to take into account the mounting evidence that Tyrannosaurus and its kin resembled nesting robins -- albeit big robins with sharp teeth and really bad tempers...
Susan Smith's invention of a black culprit didn't work as well as she had hoped. Her own not-quite-right account of the kidnapping, and perhaps memories of the Stuart case, kept people from rejecting the possibility that the distraught mother was a suspect herself. And though she may not have thought about or cared how her self-serving concoctions would affect race relations around Union, South Carolina, the worst was avoided. Despite the police sketch of a black suspect that papered the area, feelings never boiled over and authorities weren't goaded into harassing the black community...
...good fortune reflects the astonishing strength and diversity of U.S. service industries, which account for 70% of the country's economic activity. Even as manufacturers such as IBM and General Motors shed workers by the tens of thousands, service providers from banking to health care are taking on new employees. Just last week the Labor Department reported that service companies created 153,000 new jobs in October. That dwarfed the 40,000 positions that manufacturers added and helped reduce the unemployment rate to 5.8% -- the lowest in four years...