Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to say I'm hardened, but I guess those are the best words," he says, reflecting on the end of his tenure as chair. "By the end of the year, my patience was tried. I left my last executive meeting in a huff," he says...
...McArthur is just not part of life here," says one second-year student. "I guess he's accessible if you put in enough effort but he doesn't affect life here...
...Internal Revenue Service agents swooped down on the New York City headquarters of Jordache Enterprises, spent two days rummaging through files and carted off more than a million documents, the company's executives were shaken but not surprised. They quickly concluded that their rivals at Los Angeles-based jeansmaker Guess, Inc., were involved, and they were right. The IRS raid and a subsequent grand-jury investigation of possible tax violations by Jordache were triggered by tips supplied by Guess to one of the most powerful IRS officials on the West Coast: Ronald Saranow, who then headed the Los Angeles office...
There is certainly much to question in Saranow's handling of tax cases that the IRS brought against two rivals of Guess. In 1985 Saranow, acting on a tip from Guess, launched a criminal probe of Jeff Hamilton, Inc., a Los Angeles- based company that once made clothes under a license from Guess. A year later Saranow, again relying on information supplied by Guess, got IRS officials in New York City to begin a criminal case against Jordache. At the time, Jordache's founders, the Nakash brothers, were embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Marciano brothers, who founded Guess...
...late 1986, after the IRS dropped a tax case against Guess that had been initiated by Jordache, top agency officials began to investigate Saranow's possible role. The probe intensified in 1987, when Saranow's office dropped charges against Jeff Hamilton only days after that firm withdrew a lawsuit it had filed against Guess. Meanwhile, the IRS rejected Saranow's request to take a leave of absence and work for Guess, as his deputy, Howard Emirhanian, had done a year earlier. Saranow was cleared of charges of wrongdoing...