Word: accounting
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...divisions, the decision hit a raw nerve--the one that jangles with every telemarketing call. True, all manner of corporations are already trading your personal details in an estimated $3 billion-a-year data market. Most websites are collecting your browsing preferences on the sly, many banks are selling account records on the open market, and sensitive medical files remain vulnerable to snooping. "Americans have little clue about what happens to their personal information," says John Featherman, president of Privacy Protectors, a consumer-consulting firm...
...e401(k). It's a full-service 401(k), in which fixed percentages of employee savings are matched by employers in a tax-deferred investment fund administered by the employer through the Internet. The plan, designed for small businesses, includes online services such as record-keeping reports, account monitoring and retirement-planning tools. Fidelity estimates that its e401(k) plans will cost 25% less yearly than the $2,500-to-$6,500 expense of the standard small-business...
...line of Caltech astronomer GEORGE DJORGOVSKI's e-mailed message to colleagues last week informing them that a cosmic mystery that had stumped astronomers for three years (TIME, Aug. 30) wasn't so mysterious after all. Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along--a "sub-sub-subspecies" of quasar, a bright object energized by a black hole in its center 8 billion light-years away. That...
David LaMacchia, a junior and an engineering/computer science major at MIT, is charged with setting up his account on the Internet, a global data communication network, to allow users to pirate software...
...decision to use the canisters, she responded with a raid on FBI headquarters. Despite treading cautiously around the issue during her Friday media briefing, she made clear that her anger at the FBI isn?t restricted to the fact that she put her credibility on the line behind an account that some people in the bureau had to know was false ?- the very fact of using hot rounds specifically violated an assurance she says she?d been given by the FBI that only cold tear gas rounds would be used during the siege. With the nation...