Word: auditore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer he had purchased only last November was going to be dropped from IBM's product line, he immediately called the Boston Computer Exchange and put his equipment up for sale. "I wanted to get rid of it before everybody else read the newspapers," says Strauss, a hotel night auditor from Waltham, Mass. But he got no takers, even at 40% off the $1,399 list price. Fifteen months after its arrival on the market, the PCjr had joined the ranks of the computer "orphans." Because it was forsaken by its maker, its owner was likely to face ever dwindling...
...ever seen." Tew and others have sued Alexander Grant & Co., the Chicago-based accounting firm that gave E.S.M. a clean bill of financial health for the past five years even though the company was rapidly losing money. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged last week that an Alexander Grant auditor, Jose Gomez, accepted $125,000 in bribes from E.S.M. to give the rosy reports...
...George Shultz called on the U.S. to pursue an "active defense" against terrorism. Said Shultz: "I think strong action, if we can identify [that action] precisely and execute it successfully, will command broad public support." Once the two American survivors, Businessman John Costa, 50, of New York City and Auditor Charles Kapar, 57, of Arlington, Va., were out of Tehran, the White House issued a toughly worded statement, charging that Iran had "clearly encouraged extreme behavior by the hijackers...
...least articulate movies ever made. Its dialogue is deliberately banal, half-formed thoughts trying to force their way through a screen of cliches. And it is often murmured in tones an American auditor may have trouble apprehending...
What Silbey probably did not realize was that many of his conversations were being secretly recorded by Ralph Sharer, a freelance sleuth paid by Schiavone. Sharer, a former Government auditor, says he spied on Silbey and other staffers for more than two months in 1982. "I taped [Silbey] every time I talked to him," he claims. During that period, Sharer was working with the committee on two investigations unrelated to the Donovan case, a role that permitted him to act as a mole...