Word: audits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes were scattered among a rogues' gallery of electronic lowlife that included seven bank tellers, five unskilled laborers, two computer-company executives, a TV reporter and a former...
...intelligent shopping. One cannot dash about for 10 or 15 minutes a time and assume one has learned enough about a course to decide whether to take it or not. Shopping is not just one period; a student has three or four sessions in which to circulate and audit different presentations and make a decision...
...Thursday--The Audit Bureau of Circulation reports that the Harvard Independent's circulation has soared to 467,000 a week. Headlines in today's issue include: "Giant Slime Monster Living in Charles," "Axe-Wielding Cliffie Trashes A.D. 'Bimbo Party,"' and "Cokehead Cannibal Feasts on Signet Snoots." Says Indy Editor-in-Chief Kristin Amerling '87, "We're trying to get permission from Dean Jewett to start up Wingo...
...best when dispensing sensible advice about such mundane matters as writing memos and talking to one's boss or client. No one should end a phone conversation by saying "Have a nice day," she counsels. "The person you say that to may be facing an IRS audit or a tooth extraction." For those too shy to make small talk at cocktail parties, Baldrige offers a list of innocuous conversational subjects. Examples: landscape gardening, Princess Diana, the A.S.P.C.A., professional wrestling and the use of hypnotism to stop smoking...
...produce any cardiovascular benefit. Five years ago, the service urged that by 1990, three- fifths of those 18 to 64 and half of those 65 and over should be meeting that minimum. Now it says that chances of reaching those goals are "poor." Newly published 1985 Gallup Leisure Audit figures found no significant change in the number of sports participants over the past two years. Swimming, including mere splashing around the local pool, remained the most popular activity (41% of Americans did it at least once last year). Fishing (34%) nosed out bicycling (33%) for second. New York City Endocrinologist...