Word: arthur
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...generic myth constructed from a whole slew of great tales of yesterday, you, far away and thither. Playing on an anticipation of the viewer's weak memory, Legend offers us a couple of migrant dwarves straight from Middle Earth, a little-used golden sword on loan from King Arthur, a satanic but tender-hearted Evil (Tim Curry) lifted from Goethe, an outdoorsy-type hero borrowed from Edgar Rice Borroughs (Cruise), a couple of white unicorns stolen from the planet of Pern and a fairy queen cloned from Tinkerbell. Now, 'tis true that no one story or author has a copyright...
...Parkerson '86 4:21:12 Eileen Ennis '86 4:25 Diana Jovin '88 4:28 Jeannie Lo '87 4:28 Oscar Riquelme '87 4:31:07 Lisa Davenport '88 4:31:17 Mike Faris '86 4:31:18 Kevin Higgins 4:32:27 Mark Monaco '87 4:35:17 Arthur Murphy '87 4:35:27 Marion R. Sills '87 4:43 *Brian Kenet '86-'88 4:54 Bruce Zessar '87 4:56 Paula Bock...
Since 1980 the Big Eight have coughed up more than $180 million to settle liability lawsuits. The industry's No. 1 firm, Chicago-based Arthur Andersen, alone has paid out nearly $140 million. Says Joseph Connor, chairman and senior partner of New York City-based Price Waterhouse, which has made settlement payments of $3.5 million: "What we're facing is a liability crisis and a credibility crisis...
Other C.P.A.s dissent roundly from that fatalism. "It's wrong to confuse a business failure with an auditing failure," argues William Gladstone, chairman of New York City-based Arthur Young. "Auditors don't manage companies." To Gladstone and many others in the profession, the kind of foolproof auditing that some critics demand is prohibitively expensive for clients and, at times, beyond the purview of C.P.A.s. Accounting executives contend that corporate auditors must be hypercautious in issuing statements that could affect the survival of individual corporations. Asks a Big Eight C.P.A.: "What company has not gone through a bad patch...
...bright spot for accountants is Washington's continuing effort to revamp the U.S. tax code. Says Arthur Bowman, editor of the Public Accounting Report: "Every time Congress simplifies things, everybody needs more help in figuring out their taxes." If tax reform passes, accountants may have something to cheer about in an otherwise gloomy situation...