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...been shopping for classes to audit," said Lori Shoemaker, the dean's assistant. Jewett, she says, is thinking about attending a class either Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. or Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. "He told us to hold both times on his calendar...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: The Reporter's Notebook | 9/29/1986 | See Source »

...move toward monitoring has ignited a boom for companies that produce the necessary software. A Utah-based firm, Clyde Digital Systems, makes a program called AUDIT that records every single keystroke by a terminal operator. "It permits total surveillance of all users, all of the time," boasts company President Allan Clyde. Some software is more manipulative, according to a report on computer monitoring issued last April by the 9 to 5 group. One such program berates workers with messages that say, "You're not working as fast as the person next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Boss That Never Blinks | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

Commerce is the driving force. The ads in Italy's Corriere della Sera for just one day included the words personnel, administrator, quality audit, contract manager and know-how. Germans routinely refer to their employer as der Boss, who is expected to be a good Manager. "American English is definitely the model, not English--this is what we see looking through French advertising," says Micheline Faure, organizing secretary of a Paris group called AGULF, which was formed to resist the linguistic invasion. Japanese ads, posters and shopping bags are full of a special kind of American English, often starting with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: English: A Language That Has Ausgeflippt | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...Democratic plan would cut military budget authority next year to $285 billion, $1.8 billion below the current level, and $3 billion of that would be held in abeyance until the Pentagon agrees to an audit of how past years' increases were spent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Panel Approves $995B Budget Plan | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...leading trade journal, estimates that there are upwards of 34,000 accounting firms in the U.S., ranging from one-person shops to partnerships employing hundreds of C.P.A.s. But the problems afflicting the industry have adhered most dramatically to the so-called Big Eight of the profession: the firms that audit more than 90% of the financial statements of the FORTUNE 500 largest industrial corporations and rake in nearly 40% of the accounting industry's annual revenues of about $10 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes on Accountants | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

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