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...Fujita Scale of tornado intensity, an F5 is the worst measurement that can be registered. The twister that hit Jarrell was one of those, with winds estimated at more than 260 m.p.h. that stripped the hides off cows, upended 50,000-lb. garbage trucks, lifted the asphalt off the road and turned the Double Creek Estates subdivision, a community of about 75 homes and small businesses, into a dreary brown plain littered with rain-soaked lumber; jagged, anonymous pieces of metal; and the bare, black bellies of truck frames. Bruce Thoren, a National Weather Service meteorologist said the storm...
...trader--whose nicknames were "Tosh" and "Toshy"--had acted alone or with the help of friends in high places at the bank. It was noted that nearly two months passed between the time Iguchi blew the whistle on himself in a July 13 letter to bank president Akira Fujita and the time Daiwa informed authorities on Sept. 18--despite the fact that U.S. state and federal regulations require banks to give immediate notification of criminal behavior. And although Daiwa relieved Iguchi of his responsibilities in July, it did not get around to firing him until Sept. 26--two days after...
...single day. But by late 1993, Iguchi was finding it increasingly difficult to dip into Daiwa's bond accounts to make up for losses. That year, Daiwa split up the bond-trading and record-keeping functions in its New York offices. In his letter to bank president Fujita, Iguchi reportedly said the change had made it hard to continue concealing his losses. Yet the very fact that Iguchi kept up the deception for two years more heightened suspicions on Wall Street that someone within the bank helped him carry out the fraud...
...misnomer of a name to something that more accurately conveys the un-representativeness of the organization. To put it bluntly, the leaders of AAA are outright wrong to think that they can engage in political activism without political responsibility. Daniel H. Choi '94 Larry K. Fan '94 Kenji Fujita '94 Alfred Lin '94 Leon S. Yen '93 Founding Members, HRAFR
...England Telephone officials could not be reached to confirm Fujita's statement...