Word: slight
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...accounting slight-of-hand was accomplished by calling some ongoing costs, like network maintenance, capital expenditures - a move that let the company spread costs over several years, thus artificially improving cash flow and profits. Now the company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. It will cut 17,000 jobs, about 25 percent of the work force, by Friday, and CFO Scott Sullivan has been fired over the accounting debacle. Also drawn in, once again, are the beleagured auditors at Arthur Andersen, who were in charge of monitoring WorldCom's books...
What Bangkok Airways does have in common with the Western regionals is that it also makes money. Despite a slight dip in October, earnings were up 33% last year to $2.7 million. Says CEO Prasert Prasarttong-Osoth: "We've been growing at least 20% a year since we started regular flights...
...YORK TIMES headlined its downbeat Page One story GAINS OF '90S DID NOT LIFT ALL, CENSUS SHOWS. The story cited data indicating that 9.2% of families were deemed poor in 2000, only a slight improvement from 10% in 1989, despite the decade's surging economy. Huge growth in immigration paralleled the economic gains, the paper said, creating "a barbell economy of extreme haves and have-nots...
Prevented by my slight stature and my academically driven parents from excelling in athletics, I began to follow professional baseball, basketball and football religiously. Jordan, Maddux, my precious Blue Devils—those larger-than-life athletes all fulfilled my athletic aspirations, and I was content to cheer from the other side of the television...
Meanwhile, Trinity swept Cornell but suffered a slight hiccup in the semifinals, beating Princeton 7-2 to set up the long-awaited rematch...