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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...including Crum & Forster. In response, accounting firms are abandoning the riskiest clients, most notably financial-services companies. Goldstein Golub Kessler, a midsize New York City firm with more than 1,500 clients, says it will no longer perform audit work for banks, credit unions or insurance concerns. KPMG Peat Marwick, the fourth largest accounting firm, is also turning away high-risk cases, says Michael Conway, the partner in charge of professional practices. "We're being very selective about which clients we accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accounting Who's Counting? | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

Providence, a team which the Crimson defeated twice in a twin-bill at the Friar's home field earlier this season, is Harvard's opponent this afternoon. The Crimson (10-11-1 overall) will have to play a sharp game to complete the three-peat over this perennially strong Providence squad...

Author: By John B. Roberts, | Title: Batswomen Hope For Brown Tourney Crown | 4/19/1991 | See Source »

...south, the heartland of Iraq's Shi'ite majority, which has long been dominated by the minority Sunnis, loyalist troops were able to quiet Basra and other restive cities, but only temporarily. As soon as they moved on to other rebellious spots, trouble erupted again "like fire under peat," as a Western diplomat in Riyadh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: Wanted: a Strong Leader for a Broken Land (Not You, Saddam) | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...third consecutive Ivy League title with its 56-33 win over Columbia, leaving the rest of the Ivy League coaching staffs a long, long time to ponder what it is going to take to wrest the title from the Tigers. The Tigers are the first team to "three-peat" since Pennsylvania won three straight from...

Author: By Josie Karp, | Title: It's A Princeton 'Three-Peat' | 2/26/1991 | See Source »

...Wall Street during the past two years, more than 60,000 jobs have been lost as merger mania ended and the bull market stalled. Largely as a result, big accounting and law firms that served the merger makers have slashed their partnership rolls. Last month the accounting firm Peat Marwick abruptly dismissed 300 of its 1,875 partners, protecting profits by chopping highly compensated senior talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Do They Go from Here? | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

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