Word: pros
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...developments at WorldCom suggest that accounting games may be more pervasive than we had thought. With Enron, the tricks involved complicated partnerships, off-the-books debt and exotic hedging techniques that made the firm's financial results difficult to assess even for pros. It seemed unlikely that anything so complex could be widespread. But with WorldCom, as House Financial Services Committee chairman Mike Oxley, an Ohio Republican, says, it looks like "good old-fashioned fraud." Oxley's committee subpoenaed Sidgmore, Sullivan, Ebbers and Jack Grubman, telecom analyst for the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, to a July 8 hearing...
Barnaby was a strong supporter of the development of professional squash in the 1970s and the formation of the World Professional Squash Association. He was also a pioneer for the certification of squash pros...
...even as amateurs enjoy the more wholesome side of striptease, work has become more explicit in recent years for the pros. Marcy Finnas, 38, a stripper of 17 years who works in the Las Vegas area, says her job used to be more about performing. "Now," she says, with clubs and police showing greater tolerance of physical contact, "it's about sex. It's about getting men off." Whereas the stage was once the focal point of strip clubs, the job in most venues now consists almost entirely of giving lap dances...
Coach Walsh has clearly thought about the pros and cons of “riding his horse” extensively. There is an argument that Walsh should limit Crockett’s pitch count no matter the circumstances. This point-of-view argues that though Crockett will want to pitch because he’s competitive, a winner, and would let down the team if he turned down a start, his opinion should be irrelevant to Walsh, who should protect his players and give them a chance to succeed on the next level. However, it is Walsh?...
...could take the fatalistic approach and just let the rules alone, forcing Wall Street and its analysts to create their own value as seers by the quality of advice they give out - or risk the collapse of the whole fortune-telling industry. (There is some evidence that Wall Street pros earn their money - in the Wall Street Journal's "Dartboard" feature, which announced its retirement last month after 14 years pitting dart-chucking staffers against investment advisers, the dartboard won only 55 of 142 contests.) Another way might be simply to abolish the "buy," "hold" and "sell" ratings, letting analysts...