Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House announcement last Friday lends itself to many interpretations, each carrying its own degree of cynicism: Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut through the thicket of circumstantial evidence, Secret Service recollections and secondhand testimony by offering a firsthand account? Or was it a feint to give the appearance of cooperation and compliance that will ensure that Starr gets the blame when the President ultimately refuses to talk...
...Kendall found his way into the heart of the Washington establishment when he moved to the city's most storied criminal-law firm, Williams & Connolly, founded by the quintessential insider, Edward Bennett Williams. The firm and its connections into virtually every corner of Washington's criminal bar account for much of the leverage Kendall holds; many of the figures in Starr's case hired lawyers recommended by Kendall, Barnett and others at their firm, and Kendall has long-standing ties to Lewinsky's lawyers as well. As one witness after another parades before the grand jury, it is perfectly legal...
...likewise false that I did "not account for fluctuating factors like poverty levels and police techniques." Among the many factors I included in the analysis were poverty, income, unemployment, arrest and conviction rates, the number of police officers and police expenditures per capita, as well as the impact that the prevention of less serious crimes has on more serious ones. JOHN R. LOTT JR. John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow University of Chicago Chicago
...real horror story. The venerable civil rights organization had just ousted its executive director, Benjamin Chavis, for dipping into the treasury to settle a sexual-harassment case against him. The chairman of the board, William Gibson, had been accused by other board members of running up his N.A.A.C.P. expense account by thousands of dollars. Membership was dropping. There was a deficit of nearly $4 million. The only message was chaos. Better, I argued, to pull the plug on the N-Double-A and replace it with a new organization...
They solicited contributions to be kept in aprivate bank account until a more acceptable rateis achieved...