Word: flair
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...That flair led Watkins last summer to conclude there was something rotten at Enron. The numbers didn't add up. A pair of letters that she wrote to Chairman Kenneth Lay exposed top officials--perhaps including Lay himself--who for months had been trying to hide a mountain of debt, and started a chain reaction of events that brought down the company. Watkins' letters, along with thousands of other documents, are now in the hands of congressional and criminal investigators who are probing how Enron, its pet-rock auditors at Andersen and a host of other supporting actors allowed...
...degrees in Austin and quickly found a job with Arthur Andersen. She eventually landed a job with Enron, Houston's red-hot energy trading firm, rising in eight years to vice president for corporate development. Her quick ascent surprised no one, says her husband Rick: "She always had a flair for numbers...
...Bears have done it with flair too, winning several games with frantic comebacks, trick plays and answered Hail Mary passes. There are few dominant teams in the NFL this year--only the St. Louis Rams have a better record--so the Bears stand a good chance to advance. Among their biggest obstacles: the Green Bay Packers, who have beaten them twice...
Still, Dido and Aeneas easily overcomes the few odd choices of its production team and fills the Fogg Courtyard with a top-notch production executed with talent and flair...
Brett Flehinger, an American historian who won the Levenson award for outstanding teaching last year, is at California State University-San Bernadino, and many students miss Flehinger’s flair. He explains that he was at Harvard on a one-year lecturer contract here, and that he was always realistic about his future not being in Cambridge. But with a Harvard Ph.D. and three years of teaching experience, he is familiar with the culture of junior faculty. “It’s a research institute. The reality is that’s what they tenure on. It?...