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Margot O"Toole said she was fired after questioning the accuracy of data in a report produced by the head of the lab she worked at as a post-doctoral research fellow at MIT in the mid-1980s. The paper was later retracted by one of its authors...
...paper, Miniscribe certainly looked like a highflyer. The Colorado-based company's financial statements in the mid-1980s painted it as a vigorous, healthy computer-parts maker with a bright future. But an internal investigation drew quite a different picture. The probe uncovered massive fraud by senior managers, who shipped boxes of bricks labeled as disk drives and counted them as sales. Investigators blamed executives for the company's cooked books, but bondholders also sued Miniscribe's auditors, Coopers & Lybrand, for conducting faulty audits. In February a jury stunned the accounting profession by ordering C&L to pay damages...
According to the study, written by Professor of Economics James L. Medoff, the number of vacant jobs in the U.S. has decreased since the mid-1980s. In addition, jobs which are available are not as attractive, said Medoff yesterday...
...scene across America's oil patch these days bears a chilling likeness to the bust that befell the region in the mid-1980s, when energy-production jobs plunged more than one-third. But in fact the situation today is worse. While many parts of the U.S. economy are struggling through the recession, few are as hard hit as energy. By every measure, these are among the toughest times since that first gusher at Spindletop in 1901 -- more akin to the Great Depression than the cyclical booms-and-busts since...
...spotlight now as never before. For that they can thank Paul Tsongas, the first presidential candidate to run openly as a cancer survivor. Although Tsongas has been cancer-free for more than five years, the specter of his bout with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the mid-1980s has continued to shadow his campaign, even more so since his candidacy has begun to enjoy some success. No sooner had he won the New Hampshire primary than a lead editorial in the New York Times said voters needed a "firmer fix" on whether his "dread disease" might return...