Word: revisionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many U.S. executives savored fat bonuses last month after their companies pulled in record sales and profits. But not Lawrence Coss, the chief executive officer of mobile-home lender Green Tree Financial, who in 1996 surprisingly topped the list of highest-paid corporate leaders--overshadowing such titans as the Travelers...
Just ask Green Tree, where many shareholders remain bitter about the profit revision, which included a $190 million write-down for the fourth quarter of 1997. Angry investors have filed at least a dozen lawsuits, some charging that Green Tree used improperly "aggressive" accounting methods to tot up profits and...
The committee met with considerable opposition from the students assembled. None of the students in the audience spoke in favor of the rule revision. Frequently students applauded each others' criticisms of the proposal.
Parker felt the revision would allow the attendance requirement to be "applied in a fashion that is more effective and more regular."
The Legal Council, the Law School's student government, is against the new revision. According to council president Dina A. DeFalco, the council sent a letter tothe committee expressing its opposition.Additionally, the council sponsored yesterday'sforum.