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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope to have a final report before the spring. We're not trying to delay this," says Weatherhead Professor of Business and Committee Chair D. Quinn Mills. "Frankly if the summer had not intervened, we might be done...
Parents should ask for specific suggestions and query the teacher on her goals for the year in particular subjects. If your conference comes just after a report card, don't let the teacher burn too much time going over each grade; you can do that on your own. The conference should focus on areas of concern--yours and the teacher's. It is helpful to take notes during the meeting and keep any schoolwork the teacher passes along, in case amnesia strikes...
Instead, accounting firms tend to rely on methods they know best. When KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers signed off on Royal Dutch/Shell's recent societal-accountability report, they wrote that in the absence of standards, "we conducted our verification exercise in accordance with international standards for financial auditing and reporting suitably adapted." Old-fashioned investigative spadework is useful too. Ernst & Young's Wenman says that means ensuring that the actions of a company--or its contractors and suppliers--in the field measure up to principles adopted in its boardroom...
...Bradley would read as St. Onge did her homework, and sometimes she would ask him questions. "He'd give these elaborate, wonderful 'I-was-there' kind of answers," she recalls. Once, when she was studying Vietnam, he brought out textiles from there, which she used to help illustrate her report...
AIDS ALERT Doctors have come to expect that patients undergoing long-term treatment for AIDS may develop a drug-resistant strain of HIV. Now a report finds that at least 16% of newly infected patients are also resistant to one or more of the drugs in the new AIDS cocktails, making the quest for additional drugs all the more important...