Word: extention
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...early to gauge the extent of corporate fraud triggered by the recent gloom, but with credit scarce and jobs precarious, there's little doubt we're in a boom time for scams. A majority of members of the U.S. Association of Certified Fraud Examiners who were polled in February and March said they had seen the number of company fraud cases climb in the previous 12 months; the bulk of those experts attributed the rise to heavier financial pressure. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...official recognition by bringing to light the struggles and concerns expressed by ROTC members on campus. If cadets and midshipmen feel “unwelcome” or even “degraded,” as Weatherl writes, by the atmosphere at Harvard—even to the extent that they feel uncomfortable wearing their uniforms to class—then there is indeed a deep moral failure here...
Starbucks (SBUX) will try to revive its flagging fortunes with an assault on Web 2.0. Sales at the coffee chain have been falling, to some extent because it charges $5 a cup for its most fancy drinks. American are also brewing more coffee at home to save money during the recession...
Students across campus—generally stunned to hear of the extent of the budget cuts announced last Monday—aired their concerns over Harvard’s numerous e-mail lists, drafted petitions, and organized meetings to protest the planned reductions last week. Whether with talk of the loss of hot breakfast, the reduced shuttle schedule, or the loss of library services at Hilles, House lists exploded last Monday and in the days that followed with student frustration over the cutbacks. “I’m just confused about what happened to the age-old conventional...
...violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by U.S. servicemembers, modern military commissions are generally intended to try foreign combatants accused of violating the laws of war. As it is with many war powers, the Constitution is vague about the scope of military commissions; legal wrangling over the extent of the commissions' authority goes back more than a century. In 1866, the Supreme Court said a military commission could not try an Indiana lawyer accused of agitating for the Confederacy, ruling that citizens must be tried in civilian courts when they're open and accessible...