Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worthy target on which to vent such feelings, and while it is highly unusual to write history in terms of personal rage, Mee somehow seems to capture an underlying anger that conventional histories of the Watergate era miss. He relates a mood with an effectiveness that no objective account could offer, but with an air of authority that a straight piece of fiction or biography would not provide. It is Mee's style that makes the book a cohesive and meaningful treatment of "the wounds that Watergate inflicted on the American psyche" (as the blurb on the jacket phrases...
...loan officer on the day his loan was approved. According to Lance, the memo referred to a "hoped-for correspondent relationship" with NBG and an NBG deposit that would be "expressed as a percentage" of the loan to him. Within a few weeks the NBG indeed shifted its correspondent account in New York from Citibank to Manufacturers Hanover, depositing $250,000; later the deposit totaled as much as $ 1.5 million...
...happened -God knows that in San Francisco you don't have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...
Traditional auditing methods are powerless to stop sophisticated E.D.P. swindlers because accountants no longer can reconstruct a "paper trail" of records; a clever programmer can order the computer to erase all traces of his own incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized...
Cracked Open. Now the FBI has started a special computer-fraud program at its training center in Quantico, Va. Instructors have set up a model computer-controlled bank, complete with fictional account holders and loan applications, and they give the students only a few clues about what kinds of fraud might be involved. Next month the FBI school will begin giving its four-week training course to state and local policemen...