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...Though there are no firm rules on how long accounting firms must retain documents, most hold on to a wide range of them for several years. Any deliberate destruction of documents subject to subpoena is illegal. In Arthur Andersen's dealings with the documents related to Enron, "the mind-set seemed to be, If not required to keep it, then get rid of it," says Ken Johnson, spokesman for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, whose investigators first got wind of the Oct. 12 memo and which is pursuing one of half a dozen investigations of Enron. "Anyone who destroyed...
...difficult position of having to retain Pakistani support without compromising the aims of a worldwide war on terrorism. Unfortunately, the administration’s efforts to avert the conflict have so far been halting and insufficient. Instead, the most active diplomat has been British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose visit to Pakistan prompted Musharraf to take a tougher line against terrorism. The U.S. must make averting a conflict in South Asia one of its highest foreign policy priorities...
...want Levy and Martin to know that we’re available to help effort to retain key faculty members and researchers,” Hyman said...
...obligation to be a good employer to fulfill its teaching and research missions.” This is an obligation of purely instrumental value; a hypothetical imperative, not a categorical one. To the committee, a good employer provides the wages and benefits “necessary to attract, retain, and motivate employees.” The HCECP identifies only one reason why Harvard must contribute to a “minimally decent standard of living” for workers’ families, namely that such a contribution is required in order to attain the “personnel-related outcomes?...
...many of the same reasons it makes sense for a university to tenure professors, it makes sense for the Smithsonian Observatory to retain scientists to conduct research on a long-term basis. Some of the greatest breakthroughs in science have come from serendipitous discoveries in initially unrelated lines of research. Research that at first appears to have little short-term benefit can yield incredible gains over time. Additionally, the Smithsonian Observatory’s superb record over the last century supports the argument that the observatory’s independence is part of the reason for its continued success...