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...only ones who will pay, say analysts. As large firms retreat -- the Big Six currently handle the audits of 90% of FORTUNE 500 companies -- industries that require the most careful audits could be left without accountants or with lower-quality auditors. "Financial markets could grind to a halt if auditors stop certifying books," warns Rick Telberg, editor of Accounting Today, a New York City newspaper. "Investors are not going to invest unless they see that stamp of approval...
Marchers came to a halt in front of theCapitol, where they were addressed by morepoliticians and celebrities, including actor SusanSarandon and singers Cyndi Lauper, M.C. Peaches,and Peter, Paul and Mary...
...Israel says, it cannot raise the funds it needs at rates it can afford to settle the 1 million Jews expected to arrive from the former Soviet Union in the next five years -- a task comparable to the U.S. absorbing all of France. Washington has linked guarantees to a halt to new Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. That link has been staunchly resisted by Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who refuses to repudiate the right of Jews to inhabit all of the biblical land of Israel and rejects the U.S. argument that the settlements are a provocation to the Palestinians...
...goal of the United Nations-sponsored summit is dauntingly ambitious: to chart a course that will halt the steady degradation of the earth's air, land and water and protect the multitudes of animals and plants threatened with extinction. The organizers of the meeting, officially called the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, intend to produce several landmark documents, including an Earth Charter (a set of principles designed to ensure environmental protection and responsible development), a program of action called Agenda 21 and treaties aimed at curbing climate change and limiting the loss of biodiversity...
...help bridge that gap, Tsongas would use government funds to assist companies in turning their ideas into lucrative products. That could halt an embarrassing trend in which Japanese firms have frequently adopted U.S. know- how, such as microchip technology, and then used it to clobber American companies...