Word: enronizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...force against Iraq, and any true Social Security reform has already been buried under the nasdaq avalanche. Beyond that, it all comes down to the numbers: a 51-49 G.O.P. Senate would put Mississippi Republican Trent Lott in charge of the mood and message once again. That makes Enron hearings less likely and Homeland Security legislation more so. But if all the dead-heat races break for the Republicans, that would yield something closer to real legislative control. All it would take is the help of a few switch-hitting Democrats to give the G.O.P. the 60 votes needed...
HarvardWatch, a group of students and alums devoted to investigating the University, likened Harvard’s dealings to the partnerships Enron entered into to inflate its profits by millions of dollars. The discovery of those partnerships help lead to Enron’s collapse last year...
...loans were paid, and Enron (now EOG Resources in Trinidad) started pumping millions of cubic feet of gas through the platform every day. The deal eventually faded from view, until a new chairman arrived at Trinidad's state-owned oil company. Donald Baldeosingh was only 34 when he took the post and was determined to make Petrotrin efficient and profitable. He wondered how the Trintomar venture could have got into such a poor lending deal and asked a London law firm to look into it. The firm retained David Hudson, a retired British merchant banker, who responded with a scathing...
...CHARGED. ANDREW FASTOW, 40, former Enron chief financial officer, with conspiring to inflate profits and enrich himself at the company's expense; after surrendering to police in Houston. Fastow, considered the mastermind behind the financial schemes that brought about Enron's collapse, was released after his family posted bail of $5 million...
...government this eager to generate cultural capital, it seems there's never been a better time to be an artist in Singapore. Maybe I'm young and naive. I love the idea of more money coming to artists like myself. People might stop looking at me like some Enron stock and treat me like a blue chip investment. That thought makes me really happy. I think I'll go dance...