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...businesses lose as much as $40 billion to employees who steal. To protect their profit margins, many hard-hit companies have resorted to routine polygraph screening of workers and job applicants. But the scientific validity of these devices has never been proved, and the tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because a polygraph test...
Robert A. George, Azar's attorney, said that Azar is not guilty and that they intend to prove his innocence in court. George said that there was no evidence of "harm to his daughter that would render him liable...
Despite all the hand wringing, base closings often do less harm than good to a community. A Pentagon study found that among 100 base closings between 1961 and 1986, civilians lost 93,424 jobs but gained 138,138 new ones when the installations were turned to other uses. Communities across the country have found imaginative ways to transform the old bases. Forty-two former Pentagon airfields have become local airports. When the government closed Kincheloe Air Force Base near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., eleven years ago, 700 civilian jobs vanished and the surrounding community in the Upper Peninsula lost...
...Black, Drexel's mergers-and-acquisitions chief who works in New York, and Peter Ackerman, Milken's top assistant. Arguing that the California group was responsible for 90% of Drexel's profits over the past decade, both threatened to leave the company if it reached a settlement that might harm Milken's defense. They were opposed by older executives, mostly in Manhattan, who feared losing the firm's accumulated net worth if RICO charges were brought...
Ultimately, Morris' pranksterism may produce more harm for his computer users in the long-run, as our government becomes convinced that tighter security is necessary to protect the nation's computers. As Harvard officials have noted in reports and speeches in the past, clamps on the free flow of information harm the nation's economy and innovation. Perhaps taking a firm hand with Morris will forestall our nation's leadership from taking more harmful measures...