Word: reflective
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...complaint: the company failed to include in its proxy statements and annual reports the fact that it had "created a secret fund of corporate monies for the making of unlawful political contributions and other purposes." The SEC also charged that Gulfs balance sheets were understated because they failed to reflect the slush fund's value. Gulf signed a consent decree in which it agreed not to sin in the future. But Wild, who resigned last year after paying his fine, refused to sign the decree...
...BIOGRAPHIES themselves, spanning the period between 1607 and 1950, reflect the particular concerns of women's history. Although the editors were not immediately concerned with delineating family patterns in American history, they took care to find out the parental backgrounds, the atmosphere within the home, and the dates of birth for the children of these women in order to see how such factors affected their activity outside the home. Included in the dictionary are not only those women who made a distinct contribution in whatever fields they chose; but also those who, while not leaders, are significant precisely because they...
Beauty and Sadness, Kawabata's last novel, incorporates this theme into the very structure of the story, and uses it to explore the limits of human involvement. The book's characters, and their relationships, reflect each other in bewildering array; images distort, obscure, and sometimes clarify each other as if through the mirrors in a circus fun-house...
Similarly, the published statistics do not reflect the fact that many of those who are counted as jobholders are only partially employed. According to the BLS, there are 3.7 million Americans who are working short hours or hold part-time jobs because they cannot find full-tune work. One little-noted BLS measure called "labor-force time lost" combines partial employment with unemployment on a man-hour basis to show the recession in terms of missing production time rather than missing jobs. The current rate...
...present budget does not "reflect the needs of the undergraduates." Schoenholtz said...