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Accountants like to call it "earnings management." Regular folks prefer terms like "cooking the books." Whatever the term of art, there's been an increasing tendency by corporations, particularly dotcoms, to bend the rules of accounting to make their numbers look good...
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Another problem with the ordinance is that it contains loopholes allowing the state to bend the definition of conversion, say proponents of the new, stricter ordinance...
Though the teams may bend the rules, this is far from an easy-going exhibition match. The game counts in the standings for the Varsity Reds, which is comprised almost entirely of older players who could not advance past major junior hockey and have returned to school to get a college degree...
Wirzbicki said last night that he refuses to bend to Lampoon demands...