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...found her success in the water business. She worked her way through college and earned a chemistry degree, but she always saw the business world as the way to climb out of poverty. Fifteen years ago, drawing on her meager savings, she founded Hyflux, a company that pursued a wide range of water-related ventures in Asia, from cleaning wastewater in China to investing in desalination plants in Singapore...
...meter is running. The death of the Arthur Andersen firm, which dissolved after being found guilty of obstructing justice in the Enron case, reduced the Big Five accounting firms to the Final Four. That in part is why audit fees for FORTUNE 500 companies are expected to climb 38% this year, according to a survey by the Public Accounting Report. Top lines for accounting firms already look healthier. Ernst & Young booked a 17.4% revenue increase in its 2003 fiscal year, to $5.3 billion. Grant Thornton booked a 21% increase, to $485 million. The other winners? Smaller shops, which are absorbing...
...being as skinny as I am, I’m able to climb into the [overhead] compartments and crawl the length of the bus. So Nicole [Corriero] is sitting up front and someone opened [the compartment] up because we were all in on it and I just put my arm over and whacked her head and then get back up there...
...help, Grumet-Morris’ confidence came back. Never restless despite the extended periods of inactivity at his end, he wasn’t going to be caught off guard or beaten again, making sure that two was as high as the Golden Knights’ tally would climb...
...they will be equipped with Kevlar vests, which protect the dogs from shoulders to rump. The 7-lb. vests (cost: $1,000 each) have pouches for cooling packs--panting alone won't do the trick in an Iraqi summer--as well as loops for ropes to help the dogs climb steep terrain and a harness for parachuting into hostile territory...