Word: auditioned
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...partners at Arthur Andersen battled behind closed doors over Enron, a demanding, rule-bending client that paid Andersen more than $50 million a year. At Enron's behest, an Andersen partner considered "too rule oriented" was taken off the account. But the head of the Andersen audit team based inside the Enron building, David Duncan, endured. He was privy to board meetings, conference calls and paper trails as Enron's web of deceit began to unravel--dragging Andersen down too. He's now the government's key witness in its obstruction-of-justice case against his former employer...
Instead, last fall Andersen's audit team worked frantically (to no avail) to find legal accounting tricks so that Enron wouldn't have to restate its earnings downward by $591 million and post a $1 billion loss. Prosecutors allege that around the same time, Andersen shredded trunkloads of documents it knew might help the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Enron's demise...
After a similar audit, Christiani was recently allowed to resume research activities. His studies under investigation had already been completed, but until his reinstatement he had been barred from all research...
...sheer luck that he stumbled on the Bard of Avon when he did, says Gollob. What advice does he have for seniors who want to stay as intellectually engaged as he has? "Take as many courses as you possibly can," he says. "Find adult-education courses. Audit college courses if possible. This may sound frivolous, but get into it not so much for the profundity but just to have a good time." After all, as Shakespeare put it, "the play's the thing...
Mathias reported substantial protocol violations to Plunket and told Dr. Harold Brooks, dean of the university's College of Medicine in Tulsa, as well. They finally agreed to hire an outside consulting firm to audit the experiment. The finding: deficiencies "so severe that it is beyond the scope of this report to advise corrective actions." This finally persuaded Brooks to put the trial on hold. But according to the investigation, Brooks and Plunket decided not to share the report with the IRB; instead, Plunket filed an annual report that stated, "There are no significant safety issues related to the vaccine...