Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand-wringing and brainstorming are part of what Albright calls "the war of the future"--a battle in which the foot soldiers are elusive terrorists and the agents are in pursuit. The enemy in this case is a 41-year-old Goldfinger with a bank account of $100 million to $300 million, a far-flung network of cohorts and a fiery hatred for the U.S., which he badly wants out of Saudi Arabia, his homeland. The bloodiest round of this new war came on Aug. 7 when bin Laden's agents allegedly bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing...
...social realities that may already be affecting the classroom or community. Yet where should the line be drawn? Debbi Grizzi, a Lincoln, Neb., mother, had to lift her jaw off the counter when she opened her 12-year-old's backpack and discovered A Need to Kill, a graphic account of a child killer who fantasizes and masturbates about murdering boys. "There has to be some check on what children are reading," she argues. Houston eighth-grade English teacher Susan Duhon agrees that teachers must be sensitive to the wishes of the community. "I am a team player...
...basic year-end tips tend to get rehashed ad nauseam. So I won't spend a lot of time encouraging you to defer income into next year and accelerate deductions into this year. Ditto for making certain that you use, not lose, any money still in a flexible-spending account at work and for making charitable donations in the form of appreciated assets--stocks in most cases--to get a market-value deduction without anyone's paying tax on the capital gain. Let's skip to tips that are less well known or have special significance this year...
...boxer would seem to lack, well, social significance. Not true here. David Remnick takes off from the 1964 bout in which a brash Cassius Clay dethroned the menacing heavyweight champ Sonny Liston. That fight changed Clay into Muhammad Ali and created a new sort of black athlete. Remnick's account of the aftershocks packs a punch...
...TITAN: THE LIFE OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, SR. The man who made his surname synonymous with limitless riches was reviled and caricatured during his life, and posterity has not been too much kinder. Biographer Ron Chernow's account portrays both the thin-lipped skinflint and the philanthropist who gave away hundreds of millions of dollars to worthy enterprises. Monopolies seem to be back in vogue. Wherever he is now, the old man must be smiling...