Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their face-recognizing computer on the one thing all computers do well: acquiring, storing and analyzing masses of information at lightning speed. In the 1970s, psychologist Paul Ekman and his colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, developed a classification of 46 muscle movements that appear to account for the entire panoply of human facial expressions. The movements--or action units, as Ekman called them--range from the slight crow's-feet crinkling around the eyes that accompanies a smile to the contraction of forehead muscles that are an integral part of a scowl. "Some of these movements...
...that swap funds aren't for everyone. They require that the stock be held in taxable accounts and are designed with stock-laden executives in mind, not the masses in tax-deferred retirement plans. They also require a minimum investment of $500,000 and a net worth of $1 million. It's a select crowd, for sure, and that bugs me. Diversification is a huge issue for all investors. If tax-free diversification for the rich is allowed to stand--and, frankly, even if it isn't--the time has come to ease restrictions on company-contributed shares...
...options, diversify immediately. Remember, your most valuable asset--your career--is also tied to the health of your firm. If you're over age 55, your employer may allow you to sell some of its stock held in your 401(k), so be sure to ask. In your taxable accounts, lean toward diversified mutual funds, or individual stocks in at least six industries--and avoid the one in which you work. If you are concentrated in a single stock in a taxable account--and are not wealthy enough to join a swap fund--you'll have to pay capital-gains...
...homosexual whose connection to Cunanan, if any, has still not been explained. The manhunt--badly bungled, says Orth--ended after about 11 weeks with Cunanan's suicide on a Miami Beach houseboat. Sifting through pretty much the same facts, author Indiana strives for an entertaining, novelistic pastiche, overwhelming his account with imagined internal monologues, breathless sentences, dubious speculation and surmise, from mild to wild. His is a made-for-TV movie that nobody should want to watch...
...Verniero. The AP report also quotes Malley describing Smith as a "computer guy" who "originated [Melissa] at his apartment in Aberdeen, New Jersey." Smith is being held at the Monmouth County Jail. Technicians from America Online were apparently involved in the state and federal manhunt, helping trace an AOL account that had been hijacked. Also key was a controversial serial number encoded surreptitiously by some Microsoft programs...