Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Among other changes, the magazine adjusted the measure of instructional expenditures in the law school category to account for cost of living...
Within that circle, the Portland-area metro council, the only directly elected regional government in the U.S., controls all development. Inside, permits for new construction are granted readily, which helps account for the construction cranes all around a downtown that looked ready to die 20 years ago. Outside, where open land is strictly protected, there's mostly just the uninterrupted flight of greenery we call nature. Unspoiled stretches of the Willamette River Valley start 15 miles from city hall...
Books by people seduced and betrayed by the President are coming out of Washington at the rate of one a week. Just as Monica's Story was hitting No. 1 on the best-seller list, George Stephanopoulos uncorked All Too Human: A Political Education, an account of his years at Clinton's side. While it is a good read--galloping through the 1992 campaign and Clinton's bumpy first term--it will be known as the latest example of disloyalty at the top, an attempt to cash in on trickle-down celebrity with an instant book...
Amid speculation that the real reason HILLARY CLINTON canceled her trip with Bill to Central America was that she is furious with him, sources in Washington say Secret Service agents are vouching for the account that she aggravated an old back injury while skiing in Utah. According to officials, Mrs. Clinton was sideswiped by another skier, which led to a review by Secret Service headquarters to make sure her security detail had been in place to deal with any sudden, threatening movement toward the First Lady. Mrs. Clinton, who wore a hat and dark glasses, apparently went unrecognized...
...desperate for a handhold in the long climb through a childhood in the ghetto names her child Imani or "Faith." Though the simple significance of the appellation may initially seem shallow and even trite, it's this almost innocent, simple connection that gives Imani All Mine its poignancy. The account of child mothering child becomes a story of epic determination which grabs readers and takes them on a ride through a world about which they know little, if anything...