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...evoking a bygone era, the company's executives were busy pulling off "a crime of the 21st century," says Michael Dreiblatt, a top IRS official in Hartford. In short, a computer-software program was devised that enabled Leonard to reduce sales data on an item-by-item basis and skim $17 million in cash, mostly during the 1980s. Computer tapes that contained the real financial figures were destroyed, while the company's auditors were given the understated books. In order to divert even more money, Leonard began to require customers buying gift certificates to pay cash...
McGrath said she had only just received the article, and had only had time to skim it between activities concerning personnel selections...
...Phantom, they found it tough to raise money. Kopit and Lloyd Webber briefly discussed collaborating, but their visions of the Phantom didn't mesh. The Yeston-Kopit version was dead for nearly six years, then miraculously resurrected at Houston's Theater Under the Stars. Yeston's melodies often skim the roiling emotions Lloyd Webber's music swims in, but they are sophisticated show tunes, operatic and operettic by turns. Kopit balances the Phantom-Christine romance with an All About Eve , rivalry between Christine and the diva Carlotta, then a Star Wars father-and- son relationship in Act II, when...
...prep school. Just imagine living with your classmates 24 hours a day, sharing meals with them, griping about homework with them standing side-by-side on the sports field with them, appearing onstage with them, discussing the newspaper with them (when you have time to read it rather than skim it) and finally graduating with them. After three or four years of that how could anyone not be friends for life...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s., we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C- (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't though creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...