Word: marlis
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Delays, cost overruns, and incompetence in two attempts to create a computerized miscellaneous accounts receivable system (MAR), an integral part of the operations of Fiscal Services. A miscellaneous accounts receivable system is set up to bill inside and outside clients of the University for services they have received, such as Faculty Club meals, medical services, and publications...
Brown-Beasley's criticisms of Gibson, the two vice presidents and computer experts at OIT extend into specific computer systems for and applications at Fiscal Services. One of his most extensive differences with them is over the formation of the new on-line miscellaneous accounts receivable (MAR) system in Fiscal Services...
Brown-Beasley's criticism of the MAR system states the following...
Some grim spots nonetheless mar the glowing predictions. The nation's harvest of oats will plummet 24% below last year's, to 499 million bu.-the lowest level in 95 years-and the output of barley will drop 19%, to 311 million bu. Part of the reason is that the largest oats- and barley-producing states are bedeviled by drought. Most agricultural counties in the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Minnesota are critically dry; many have been declared disaster areas. The situation is so bad for farmers, says Agronomist Howard Wilkins of North Dakota State University, that "Santa Claus...
Still, these minor defects do not mar his skills as a lawyer or the service he did the people of Buffalo Creek. Still, four years later unsafe gob piles periodically overflow in back hollows of southern West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. They are conscientiously disregarded by company officials and state inspectors. The people of Buffalo Creek are still trying to put their lives back together; some still live in the temporary housing the government moved in after the flood. From Stern's account, for the people of Buffalo Creek and the Pittston Company it all came down to one question...