Word: pokey
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...expected to show up just long enough to take the Fifth. Arthur Andersen CEO Joseph Berardino is due today to talk about how much he didn't know. And so just as the cluster of Enron probes took a sharp turn over the weekend toward sending people "to the pokey," as Rep. Billy Tauzin put it Sunday, lawmakers are finding themselves either with no guests at all - the Senate Commerce committee simply canceled Monday's episode - or even worse: with guests that nobody particularly to watch...
...unless other-former-CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who as of Monday was still due to not only show up for his date this week but "speak freely" (this according to his spokesman), falls down on his knees and admits everything, no one will be pokey-bound over Enron for quite some time. Truly informational hearings, with regulators standing in for villains, won't make very good television. But the longer lawmakers are forced to ask about preventing the next Enron instead of punishing the current one, the better chance the hearings have of producing the new laws, new rules...
...every ancient mariner knew, traveling by sail is a simple way to go. Though the winds could be fickle and the boats pokey, the energy source that moved the ship was free, plentiful and renewable. Now the same technology that conquered the oceans of Earth may conquer the ocean of space...