Word: armfuls
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...executives received other payments now being examined. Black, Amiel and the executives are affiliated with a private firm called Ravelston Corp., which received $203 million from Hollinger from 1995 to 2002 for so-called service agreements. Hollinger admitted in March that these agreements "were not the result of arm's length negotiations between independent parties" and thus may not be favorable to the company. Yet Hollinger's board signed off on some of the payments. On Friday the firm said it had understated taxes by at least $17 million because of "inaccuracies" in previous disclosures. Making matters worse for Black...
...dotcom by his former boss at Disney (now eBay CEO), Meg Whitman. At the time, in 1999, eBay had 400 employees; now it has 5,600. Its share price has grown 33-fold. Worldwide, $23 billion in transactions will pass through the eBay marketplace in 2003. Jordan's U.S. arm handles $14 billion of that. "There's a friendly competition not to let the rest of the world catch up," he says...
...like a person that just quit surfing after this, I wouldn't be a real surfer." BETHANY HAMILTON, 13, who while surfing in Kilauea, Hawaii, last month had her arm bitten off by a shark...
...allegedly funneling $166,000 from a faltering commercial bank into a private political research institute set up by Roh. Meanwhile, investigators from the Supreme Public Prosecutors' Office recently raided offices at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, part of the Samsung Group, the country's largest conglomerate; Hyundai Capital, the auto finance arm of automaker Hyundai Motor; and LG Shopping, an online shopping subsidiary of Korea's No. 2 conglomerate. Prosecutors are seeking evidence that the companies gave contributions illegally to political campaigns, including Roh's. A spokesman for Samsung said the group was "not involved with the election process illegally." The other...
...have helped us tremendously," a senior U.S. official told TIME. "We work hand in hand." That close relationship is largely thanks to Bulgaria's top cop, General Boyko Borissov, who took office two years ago. The walls of his spacious Sofia office are lined with grinning portraits of him arm-in-arm with top law-enforcement brass from the U.S. Secret Service, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Europol and Interpol. Though counterfeit euros pose no threat to Bulgaria's economy (the country is not joining the E.U. until 2007 at the earliest and use of the currency is probably...