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Since fall this year, discoveries of misleading accounting and fraud by such prominent corporations as Enron, Xerox and WorldCom have profoundly shaken investors’ confidence, causing stock prices to plummet...
...agents are thwarted from doing their job by a "climate of fear." She writes: "Numerous high-ranking FBI officials who have made decisions or have taken actions which, in hindsight, turned out to be mistaken or just turned out badly (i.e. Ruby Ridge, Waco, etc.) have seen their careers plummet and end. This has in turn resulted in a climate of fear which has chilled aggressive FBI law enforcement action/decisions. In a large hierarchical bureaucracy such as the FBI, with the requirement for numerous supervisors' approvals/oversight, the premium on career enhancement, and interjecting a chilling factor brought on by recent...
...COMICS MAKES A MINT OFF LURID BOOKS LIKE "TALES FROM THE CRYPT" BUT IS ALMOST PUT OUT OF BUSINESS BY A CENSORIOUS COMICS CODE. ALL COMIC SALES PLUMMET, AND THE MEDIUM SUFFERS...
...spending 12 to 15 hours a week on church activities. By his senior year, his days became a whirlwind of working in the lab, going to Bible study, writing his thesis and sleeping for a couple of hours. “My family saw me plummet in terms of grades,” Lee says of his fall from straight A’s to failing marks...
...Palestinian territories. Doves insist that the only way to restore Israel's security is to seek a peace agreement that largely extricates it from the West Bank and Gaza. But Sharon finds himself in the bloody limbo between full-scale war and renewed negotiations, watching his domestic political support plummet as he orders up new military actions that have consistently failed to restore calm...