Word: enronitis
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...even race has got too heated lately for the liking of Long Thompson, who declared last week that she would make a "change in tone in my campaign." It was an attempt to dial back from controversial Democratic Party ads that charged her opponent, an agribusiness executive, with having "Enron values" and cutting health benefits at his company while boosting executive bonuses. Chocola protested the ads' tone and veracity so strongly that local TV stations dropped them...
...horrified and embarrassed" by the mud-spattered image of Citi, which stands accused of unethical and illegal behavior on multiple fronts. Among the alleged transgressions: doling out shares of hot IPO shares to WorldCom executives in a bribe-like manner to win banking business, devising complex financing to help Enron conceal debt and having stock analysts hype the shares of companies that were investment-banking clients. While Salomon Smith Barney was making the VIPs rich, another Citi subsidiary was charging consumers high fees and above-market interest rates on loans, according to charges Citi just settled with the Federal Trade...
...farm. He spent time on the Internet looking to adopt a St. Bernard puppy something he'd been talking about for awhile. He also told friends that he'd never run for office again and that he was eager to start joining corporate boards. In the post-Enron era it's hard to imagine too many companies rushing to hire the Torch...
Judges awarded the Economics prize to all the corporations, such as Enron and WorldCom, that “adapted the mathematical concept of imaginary numbers for use in the business world...
...even race has got too heated lately for the liking of Long Thompson, who declared last week that she would make a "change in tone in my campaign." It was an attempt to dial back from controversial Democratic Party ads that charged her opponent, an agribusiness executive, with having "Enron values" and cutting health benefits at his company while boosting executive bonuses. Chocola protested the ads' tone and veracity so strongly that local TV stations dropped them...