Word: andersen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waiters have to wear tuxedoes," protested Jasper Mirable, owner of Jasper's Restaurant in Kansas City. "They're wet by the middle of the evening. It's destroying everything I've worked for." At the St. Louis offices of the Arthur Andersen & Co. accounting firm, a senior officer reported: "We just turned the thermostat down. In a couple days they'll come around and turn it up, but then we'll turn it back down again." Insisted a liquor-store owner in Boston: "When they turn the air conditioning off in the White House...
Gosta Esping-Andersen, assistant professor of Sociology, said yesterday Pizzorno is "regarded as the most distinguished Italian sociologist and his expertise in industrial sociology will be particularly valuable...
Last-week the Business Roundtable, whose members are the chief executives of some 190 of the nation's biggest corporations, issued its long-awaited report on regulation costs. The study, conducted by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen, was a significant measure of the actual financial impact of regulation as experienced by companies...
Intentional delay by lawyers is a different matter. Judges are beginning to use their power to penalize foot-dragging on legitimate discovery demands, and to protect parties from unreasonable ones. In a recent case, the accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. stalled the State of Ohio in its attempts to get at some records in Switzerland. A federal judge ordered the company to pay Ohio $60,000 in legal costs. Another judge, citing "flagrant bad faith," simply threw out the antitrust claim of New York City's Metropolitan Hockey Club Inc. (later Golden Blades) after it failed to respond...
...easy to diagnose such nominal absurdity, but plainly it is epidemic. Already the name thing has inspired the publication of whole books that purport to plumb the "psychological vibrations" of personal names. Dawn and Loretta and Candy are supposed to be sexy, according to Christopher Andersen's The Name Game, and Bart and Mac and Nate are macho. Humphrey is sedentary; so much for Bogart. Anyway Americans have not needed any tracts or theories to get them lunging after catchy handles. One Phoenix mother recently branded her new baby girl with the unforgettable sobriquet Equal Rights Amendment...