Word: rottener
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...subsequently, a dozen other Wall Street firms turned the tables. The new ethics he championed are touching in their simplicity: analysts' ratings should reflect what they actually believe. There has not been such an affirmation of what's right since Moses and the Ten Commandments. "The system was rotten, and no one seemed interested in fixing it," says Spitzer. "So we moved...
...report on the Bush administration's efforts to make Saudi Arabia increase its antiterrorism efforts stated that some officials believe that Saudi Arabia has furnished al-Qaeda with money and recruits [World, Dec. 9]. If that is the case, then the innocent Saudi people are incapable of subduing the rotten ones or unwilling to do so. Congress's idea of reducing aid and denying visas to Saudis is the least the U.S. should do. Bush needs to focus on Saudi Arabia, a country that is already killing us. DONALD KARDOS Hoboken...
...fluke, really, that Cooper got wind of the rotten accounting. A worried executive in the wireless division told her in March 2002 that corporate accounting had taken $400 million out of his reserve account and used it to boost WorldCom's income. But when Cooper went to Andersen to inquire about the maneuver, she was told matter-of-factly that it was not a problem. When she didn't relent, Sullivan angrily told Cooper that everything was fine and she should back off. He was furious at her, according to a person involved in the matter. Cooper, concerned that...
...Germakian] just got a real rotten draw,” O’Donnell said...
...ultra-modern Tokyo headquarters, standing near several upside-down depictions of The Last Supper, a three-dimensional photograph of a naked woman, some vintage Vivienne Westwood shirts and a large Sex Pistols poster. His tiny figure?at 1.65 meters and 52 kilos, Takahashi looks like a Japanese Johnny Rotten?appears contorted with pain. Takahashi, the 33-year-old founder of fashion house Under Cover, is shaking his head, tugging on his "Nagasaki Nightmare" T shirt and bitching about the spate of anxiety dreams he's been suffering lately. In one, he's at an unveiling of his offbeat outfits when...