Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Among other things, it means accounting firms need to hire people who may not know a debenture from a dividend, but who do understand carbon-dioxide emissions or child-labor scams. Thus, when the London office of KPMG recently formed its new Sustainability Advisory Services (SAS), it hired the core personnel en masse from the Body Shop, the British cosmetics firm that helped pioneer the practice of corporate social and environmental accountability...
Instead, accounting firms tend to rely on methods they know best. When KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers signed off on Royal Dutch/Shell's recent societal-accountability report, they wrote that in the absence of standards, "we conducted our verification exercise in accordance with international standards for financial auditing and reporting suitably adapted." Old-fashioned investigative spadework is useful too. Ernst & Young's Wenman says that means ensuring that the actions of a company--or its contractors and suppliers--in the field measure up to principles adopted in its boardroom...
...George and I both shed a tear when we learned of Raisa's death. We mourned the loss of a friend; we mourned the passing of a fascinating woman who gave much to this world; mainly we mourned for Mikhail. Theirs was a great love story, and we know he'll miss her terribly...
...back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas. But that was also the plight of Descartes, Locke, Hume and his other favorite Western philosophers...
...distance carrier] by the FCC three times," says Greenfeld. "Until AT&T can make a real business out of offering local service over their phone lines, the FCC is likely to make any BellSouth wait ?- and that doesn?t even include state-by-state approval by state regulators. God knows how long how thatcould take." The stock market, meanwhile, doesn?t seem to much care who wins; as long as big companies are throwing their weight around again, traders don?t even have time to worry about the Fed (meeting tomorrow. The smart money?s on no rate hike). Sprint...