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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...family business, committed suicide by jumping from an overpass in 2000. Just last year, Elkann's younger brother, Lapo, head of Fiat marketing, nearly died from a cocaine overdose. Elkann absorbed himself in business instead. After getting his degree, Elkann entered General Electric's highly competitive Corporate Audit Staff program, where he mixed with other future business leaders and got hooked on high finance. Back at Vittoria, as he zips through his lunch, Elkann extols the benefits of knowing the books. "Finance is applied to everything," he says. "Look at this restaurant: maybe it seems overstaffed, but then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All In The Family | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

...Corruption doesn't help. A Nigerian government audit of the oil industry last month showed discrepancies worth hundreds of millions of dollars between what oil companies say they paid the government and what authorities say they received. The federal government says it is tightening up its oversight. And there's the problem of what state governments do with the money they receive from Abuja. Thanks to high oil prices, Rivers, one of the biggest oil-producing states, has seen its revenues increase. But many schools still don't have furniture and roads are crumbling. Rivers' Information Commissioner Magnus Abe says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria's Deadly Days | 5/14/2006 | See Source »

...outbreak under control. But to keep the fungus in retreat, a team of restorers comes into the cave every two weeks - dressed, as everyone who enters now must be, in hooded biohazard suits, booties and face masks - to remove filaments from the walls. Another team visits regularly to audit the cave's sanitary condition using laser imaging. "They tell us the cave's condition is stable," says one member of the Scientific Committee of Lascaux Cave, set up by the French Ministry of Culture in 2002 to deal with the problem. "But that's what they say about Ariel Sharon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving Beauty | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitors, dealing with them properly is the most important part of the recycling process. "If your vendor refuses to show a CRT-glass rate, you should be concerned," says Robin Ingenthron, who runs Good Point Recycling in Middlebury, Vt. He also suggests asking for an audit trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talking E-Trash | 5/7/2006 | See Source »

...were a little skeptical about our numbers nearing the end of the year, and so I started this audit,” Kurisu said...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein and Rachel L. Pollack, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Council Budget Off By $1,700 | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

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