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...their relevance) will decline, and Australians' ideas about the relationship between bosses and workers and about a fair-wage safety net will be revolutionized. In Canberra and beyond, Howard and his ministers have been extolling the proposed new system's fairness, choice and protections - soothing words that seek to hide the darker side of a deregulated labor market and that obscure the true scale of the risks and opportunities of globalization...
...missed the company's alleged book cooking so soon after the scandals of Enron, Worldcom and others. "Everybody had a chance to look them over," says Bill Harris, a forensic accountant at the business-services firm CBIZ. "Four hundred thirty million dollars is an awful big number to hide." Those who have dealt with Refco say there was reason to be careful. In 1999 the Commodity Futures Trading Commission levied $7 million in fines against Refco for order-taking and record-keeping violations. Several times during the '90s, Refco was cited by regulators for violations related to combining account balances...
...public display in Lodi is evidence of how Fazio has viewed the job he has now held for 12 years. "He says, 'It is I, not the markets, who knows what's best,'" says a Bank of Italy official. "The way he interprets his role is not to hide the fact that he is behind this bank or that one. It's really arrogance of power...
Prose does not hide that Caravaggio killed people during the tavern-fights which he loved to instigate, and that his competitive spirit—particularly with other artists—earned him an incredible collection of enemies. But somehow these behaviors get lost in the magnificent descriptions of the artist’s work. Somehow, in Francine Prose’s biography, the violence of the character is camouflaged in the tumult of Renaissance Italy...
...believe our specific burglary rate is higher than other college campuses in the area because we feel we’re doing a strict interpretation of the burglary definition,” Catalano said. “We have pretty high standards...We have nothing to hide...