Word: ledger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talking about Ivy League losses, and this slight difference in the league ledger sets the Crimson apart--and on top. The Harvard men's soccer team (5-3-1 overall, 2-0-1 Ivy) leads the Ancient Eight, but places its undefeated league status in jeopardy for the first time in two weeks tonight against the Tigers (5-4-1 overall, 2-1-1 Ivy) in Princeton...
...Lies in the interest of the liar, or "The dog ate my homework." Here rest the domains, familiar to everyone, of being on the spot, of feeling guilty, of fearing reprimand, failure or disgrace, and on the other side of the ledger, of wishing to seem more impressive to others than the bald facts will allow. Complicity between liar and auditor rarely occurs in this category; the liar wants to get away with something. If a lie turneth away wrath, or win a job or a date on Saturday night, why not tell it? Because to do so is immoral...
...Writer's Beginnings, an adaptation of the first Massey lectures given by Eudora Welty, became a huge hit, selling 135,000 copies, Donald said. "These books significantly help [our ledger], yes," Donald said...
Executive turbulence could be a dangerous distraction from Chrysler's real task of completing the comeback that Iacocca began more than a decade ago. On the positive side of the ledger, years of employee teamwork have created a new generation of promising Chrysler cars, Jeeps and minivans. "You couldn't want better vehicles to market, heading into an upturn in the economy," says Joseph Phillippi, who watches the industry for Shearson Lehman Hutton. At the same time, Chrysler's chronic cash crunch (it lost $795 million last year) makes it crucial for the vehicles...
...fashioned accounting methods failed to keep tabs on such sophisticated multinational activity as "intracompany" sales, exports to a corporation's own foreign affiliates. These exports, which account for more than a quarter of all U.S. trade activity, simply fell through the cracks. On the other side of the ledger, however, the government's accountants were diligent indeed in totting up tariff-producing imports. "In terms of international competitiveness," says economist Robert Baldwin, chairman of the panel, the study suggests that "we are not doing as badly as the trade figures indicate." So the good news is that Americans are more...