Word: membership
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...troubles are spread unevenly across a profession so diffuse that no completely accurate membership count exists. The Public Accounting Report, a leading trade journal, estimates that there are upwards of 34,000 accounting firms in the U.S., ranging from one-person shops to partnerships employing hundreds of C.P.A.s. But the problems afflicting the industry have adhered most dramatically to the so-called Big Eight of the profession: the firms that audit more than 90% of the financial statements of the FORTUNE 500 largest industrial corporations and rake in nearly 40% of the accounting industry's annual revenues of about...
...time, therefore, to stop this final club bashing and recognize all that we gain from the presence of these organizations. Concurrently, we should become more sensitive to the personal needs of their membership...
...nominally made up of six students and seven faculty members, but critics have charged that the membership is not chosen democratically and that the body only acts against political activists. It bases its judgments on the 1960s-era Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, which stresses the preservation of freedoms of speech and movement...
...meeting stretched on past midnight. By the time the final vote on the entire $24,000 Grants Budget was about to be made, various council members near me had commented that they did not believe a quorum existed. Despite this no member called for a count of the membership present. As Chairman Brian Offut was about to call the vote, I called "Quorum" and was immediately hissed. Although I persisted, Offut attempted to ignore me, at one point saying: "There seems to be a ringing in my ears." When he finally recognized me he angrily requested that I withdraw...
...fill it, experts advise entrepreneurs. That is exactly what Michael Eckstein, a former health-care executive, and Ian Sharp, a computer- software designer, did. Their Physician's Alert compiles lists of people who have filed medical-malpractice, product-liability and personal-injury lawsuits. Customers, primarily doctors, pay annual membership charges of $150 for access to the lists...