Word: ethane
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...common with Enron accounting, but with one exception: it's perfectly legal. By adjusting the arcane formulas used to calculate pension assets and obligations, corporate accountants can turn a drastically underfunded system into a financially healthy one, even inflate a company's profits and push up its stock price. Ethan Kra, chief actuary of Mercer Human Resources Consulting, once put it this way: "If you used the same accounting for the operations side [of a corporation] that is used on pension funds, you would be put in jail...
...made a counter-argument that is totally unnecessary. I encourage him to read my essay again more closely, and I worry that without clarification or retraction other students will be turned away from reading my essay because of his misunderstanding. —Ethan Gray ‘05-’06 While each person is allowed their opinion, the article on the video for “The Ghost Of You” by My Chemical Romance, was seemingly unresearched. They didn’t even bother to learn the band members’ names...
Several essays critically question the legitimacy of any required course, no matter its quality. Ethan L. Gray ’05-‘06 argues that well-meaning attempts to create “well-rounded” students can prevent them from developing “a profoundly important value: passion.” “Imposing” a curriculum, as he argues, only serves to turn students off to learning. Thomas Wolf ’05 worries about the University’s desire to create students of a specific “mold?...
...confident one. "He believes in himself entirely," says Ethan Hawke, who has worked with him since 1993. "Most of the really talented directors I've worked with are crazy, wild, narcissistic egomaniacs. He happens to be a hell of a guy. He's a heavyweight intellectual but completely without pretense...
...favorite anecdotes, a Springfield friend recalled, sprang from the early days just after the Revolution. Shortly after the peace was signed, the story began, the Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen "had occasion to visit England," where he was subjected to teasing banter. The British would make "fun of the Americans and General Washington in particular and one day they got a picture of General Washington" and displayed it prominently in the outhouse so Allen could not miss it. When he made no mention of it, they finally asked him if he had seen the Washington picture. Allen said "he thought...