Word: peated
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...night the frost shades the windows of the few white wooden houses. When the wind doesn't roar, it howls in the rolling hills. Seagulls loop and cry above the harbor. If this were a normal season, there would be the slight scent of peat in the air, and the residents of the settlement would be going about the business of putting the rams out to the ewes. There are late potatoes and winter cabbage in the family vegetable gardens. The sheep dogs would either be working or be still...
...year is one reason for the discontent, but the picturesque life at an average annual cash income of $6,500 is little better than simple poverty. Mutton?stewed, ham-burgered or grilled?shows up at most meals. Drinking is a favorite sport; discarded beer cans are everywhere, even in peat deposits...
...time. Says William J. Anderson, the director of the General Accounting Office's general government division: "Extensive evidence shows that non-compliance among both corporate and individual taxpayers is a serious problem, and is getting worse." Adds Theodore Hanson, a partner in the accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co.: "Both tax avoidance and nonreporting are on the rise. With tax brackets rising so high, so fast, more people have the attitude of evade...
...Cullinane Database Systems of Westwood, Mass. Its sales grew 66% last year to $29 million, and customers include the Chase Manhattan Bank, General Electric, Burger King and the American Bible Society. Computer audit programs are selling so swiftly that the leading accounting firms are moving into the business. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., for instance, now markets its own program, called System 2190. FBI experts like Agent Paul Nolan, however, contend that so far such programs have largely failed to detect frauds by sophisticated criminals...
...begins this loopy yarn, set in the misty, myth-ridden hills and bogs of County Donegal, northwest Ireland. Once his victim is buried deep in the peat, Roarty begins to receive demanding notes from "Bogmailer."The mystery meanders with Irish indirection to a surprising last-minute plot twist, employing a cast of tavern regulars that Flann O'Brien or Dylan Thomas would have stood to a round...